http://therumpus.net/2009/10/so-who-won-the-nobel-prize-again/ Books, Music, Movies, Art, Politics, Sex, Other Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:45:12 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://therumpus.net/2009/10/so-who-won-the-nobel-prize-again/comment-page-1/#comment-10288 Rathgormack Thu, 08 Oct 2009 21:13:52 +0000 http://therumpus.net/?p=35386#comment-10288 That Mueller's work is not known in the US is a result of two factors: the sorry state of the US publishing indu$try, and the sorry state of the US public who read only English. Mueller's work is vital in addressing essential issues of our time: identity, ethnicity, oppression, and the role of art in an art-less world. Her depiction of the police state apparatus that ruled Romania is unmatched. Equally insightful is her sense of the German ethic minority in Romania and how it then becomes an ethnic minority in Germany. And she does so in poetically stunning language. Hooray for the Nobel Committee! That Mueller’s work is not known in the US is a result of two factors: the sorry state of the US publishing indu$try, and the sorry state of the US public who read only English. Mueller’s work is vital in addressing essential issues of our time: identity, ethnicity, oppression, and the role of art in an art-less world. Her depiction of the police state apparatus that ruled Romania is unmatched. Equally insightful is her sense of the German ethic minority in Romania and how it then becomes an ethnic minority in Germany. And she does so in poetically stunning language. Hooray for the Nobel Committee!

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