Saturday, December 01, 2012

An act of resistance...

...Herta Müller: a life in books
Müller felt relief when the Berlin wall fell in 1989. The German security services had warned her not to enter East Germany: "They thought I might be abducted back to Romania." When the 1989 revolution toppled Ceausescu, "I thought, I'll live longer than him now." Yet after his summary trial and Christmas Day execution, "I cried all that day, partly maybe with relief, but you can't watch somebody being shot. Even though I might have wished for that for 20 years, I didn't really want to see it."

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