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4.0 out of 5 stars
A must for those who wonder what's going on in Germany,
This review is from: The Fantastic Ordinary World of Lutz Rathenow: Poems, Plays & Stories (Paperback)
You may read bookshelve-crushing amounts of printed matter on Germany with a special focus on the former GDR, yet you've missed a lot if you don't know Lutz Rathenow. Trying to find words in english without a dictionary at hand makes me feel how difficult the task to translate these pieces of art from german into english. Boris Sax has done quite well! Rathenow is neither easy to read, nor to understand - as is the reunited Germany of today. He's quite fascinating though, giving you the chance to reread once and again and still find something new in his poems and pieces of prose. Some typing errors - who cares? This booklet is a flashlight on Germany, what it was like in the eastern-bloc GDR and as it is still developing - sometimes painfully - today. The afterword is a masterpiece of its own - a brief outline on dark-red times. In there, Rathenow may appear like a shrewd businessman, but: Read the book, you'll love it! - A timeless piece of art. (He's just taking care of his family.)By the way: The "Zitronenbombe" on page 50 doesn't mean an ice bomb that people and especially children love, its the neutron bomb people and even children in the GDR were (made)scared of.
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The Fantastic Ordinary World of Lutz Rathenow: Poems, Plays & Stories by Lutz Rathenow (Paperback - January 1, 2001)
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