by Christa Wolf · Sãƒâ¼ddeutsche Zeitung · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783866155091
VAT included
Hamelyn quality guarantee · checked and verified, or your money back
«Kassandra» is the novel by Christa Wolf, published by Süddeutsche Zeitung in paperback (155 pages, in German).
Set in the final days of the Trojan War, the work gives voice to Cassandra, the prophetess daughter of Priam, who reviews her life as she awaits her fate. Christa Wolf transforms the Greek myth into a narrative about power, war, and the oppression of women, as well as the loneliness of one who sees the truth without anyone believing her.
Kassandra is volume 59 of the SZ-Bibliothek collection from Süddeutsche Zeitung. The work was originally published in 1983.
For readers interested in the reinterpretation of classical myths and in twentieth-century German literature from a gender perspective.
Christa Wolf was a German novelist and essayist. She is considered one of the most important writers to emerge from the former East Germany.
