Volker Braun in Perspective

On the occasion of Volker Braun's 65th and GDR/German Monitor's 25th birthday an attempt is made to re—evaluate Braun's contribution to 20th and 21st century German literature. The seventeen essays of the collection, written by a truly international set of scholars, demonstrate the unique quality and breadth of Braun's writing, spanning all literary genres. But not only that, they also reveal the diversity of interpretative perspectives which Braun's oeuvre productively stimulates. They sho...