by Herta Müller · Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070382385
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«L'homme est un grand faisan sur terre» is the novel by writer Herta Müller, published by Gallimard in paperback (124 pages, in French).
In a Romanian village, the miller Windisch wishes to emigrate and perceives signs of fatality in the atmosphere. While awaiting his passport, his daughter Amélie gives herself to the militiaman and the pastor to help him obtain it. The novel portrays the oppression and resistance of marginalized peasants under a totalitarian regime.
This novel was originally published in 1986 as «Der Mensch ist ein grosser Fasan auf der Welt». The French translation is by Nicole Bary; the edition belongs to the Folio collection (no. 2173).
For readers of contemporary European fiction and for followers of the work of Herta Müller, Nobel Prize in Literature 2009.
Herta Müller is a Romanian-German novelist, poet, essayist and recipient of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Nițchidorf, Timiș County in Romania; her native languages are German and Romanian. Since the early 1990s, she has been internationally established, and her works have been translated into more than twenty languages.
