The Wall in My Head

by WORDS WITHOUT BORDERS

• ISBN13: 9781934824238
• ISBN10: 1934824232
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-11-30
• Publisher: Open Letter

Summary

On the night of November 9, 1989, after months of unrest in Europe and East Germany, the checkpoints between East and West Berlin were suddenly, almost accidentally, opened, starting a process that would bring together a Europe that had been divided for thirty years.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. ix
From The Art of the Novel	p. 3
Paris Lost	p. 8
From Omon Ra	p. 13
Petition	p. 16
From Moving House	p. 21
Nabokov in Brasov	p. 26
From Waltz for K	p. 37
Report from a Besieged City	p. 44
On Eugen Jebeleanu	p. 47
Poems from Secret Weapon	p. 49
From Imperium	p. 53
From The Tower	p. 59
My Grandmother the Censor	p. 66
From The Wall Jumper	p. 74
Farewell to the Queue	p. 80
Tower of Song: How the Plastic People of the Universe Helped Shape the Velvet Revolution	p. 89
In Pictures	p. 99
The Revenge	p. 110
The Souvenirs of Communism	p. 116
The Road to Bornholm	p. 122
Regardless of the Cost: Reflections on Péter Esterházy's Revised Edition	p. 132
Preface to Revised Edition	p. 136
From Mandarins	p. 145
Brother and Sister	p. 153
Faraway, So Gross	p. 160
From Urbancholia	p. 166
That Fear	p. 174
Speech at the Opening Session of the 13th German Bundestag	p. 178
The Life and Times of a Soviet Capitalist	p. 184
The War Within	p. 199
Any Beach But This	p. 209
The Noble School	p. 222
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