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In the Flesh (2002)

por Christa Wolf

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Suffering severe abdominal pain, a woman is rushed to the emergency room. Her soaring temperature, her deepening distress, her body's resistance to medicine confound her doctors, who operate repeatedly.Drifting in and out of consciousness, she endures a fitful fever dream in which the boundaries between wakefulness, memory, and delusion blur then totally break down. Old friends appear to her, comforting strangers materialize by her bedside, and her sense of self, of being an "I" who acts rather than a "she" who is acted upon, begins to slip away. Gurney rides through the hospital corridors become fantastic travels through the hallways of hell. Remembered snatches of Goethe's Faust and "Upbuilding" Communist propaganda provide a running commentary on her predicament. The scene, half real, half hallucinated, is the former East Germany, a country of secrets, silences, and unexplained disappearances. The time: just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.Christa Wolf's mesmerizing short novel ? already a best seller in Germany ? is a supreme work of political and philosophical insight by one of Europe's greatest living writers. Alive with myth and metaphor, rich in historical and literary allusion, it draws a nuanced, witty, and utterly compelling portrait of a person and a society close to death yet still capable of recovery.… (mais)
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De ik-vertelster, DDR-burger, ligt in het ziekenhuis na een heel zware blindedarmoperatie. Is die ontsteking, die veel te lang heeft doorgewoekerd, alleen maar een lichamelijke kwaal? Onder narcose daalt ze af in de Hades, in de periodes tussen waken en slapen gaan de gedachten naar een vroegere vriend, die is opgeklommen in de partij en daardoor zichzelf heeft moeten verloochenen. Uiteindelijk is hem dat toch fataal geworden. En waar kwam die blindedarmontsteking nu vandaan???
  wannabook08 | Jan 2, 2017 |
This is a book that already works brilliantly well if you simply take it at face value as a description of the experience of being sick and in hospital, the way the sacrifice of control over your own body radically alters your perception of your relationship with your body and with the surrounding world, and so on. There's a lot of very clever juggling of first and third-person narration, the stream-of-consciousness technique mixing dreams seamlessly with direct experience of the hospital environment. It's only when you get quite a long way into the book that you realise that there's a lot more going on, and that the narrator's illness is also an extended metaphor for the experience of living in a corrupt, collapsing political system. This is the sort of thing that could so easily be overdone, but Wolf keeps it at a very subtle, indirect level, forcing the reader to look for the parallels without more than a few very indirect hints. Beautifully done. ( )
  thorold | Jan 25, 2013 |
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Eine Frau erkrankt. Plötzlich gehen ihr die Worte aus: Da, wo vorher Sprache war, ist nun nur noch Schmerz. Die Frau wird eingeliefert, untersucht. Die erste Diagnose: Tachykardie. Ein Wort wie aus einer griechischen Tragödie, das Schlimmeres verheißt.
In Christa Wolfs neuer, in den 80er-Jahren spielender Erzählung Leibhaftig muss die lebensgefährlich Erkrankte, die immer wieder auch als Ich-Erzählerin fungiert, geduldig auf die rettenden Medikamente warten: Alles hängt davon ab, ob der Kurier via S-Bahn rechtzeitig nach Westdeutschland "übersetzen" und in einer dortigen Apotheke das Lebenselixier erstehen kann. Denn die Frau liegt im "Hades" einer Poliklinik, "drüben" in der DDR. In dieser "bleichen Zwischenwelt" eines geteilten Himmels, auf der krisenhaften Schwelle zwischen Leben und Tod, Früher und Heute, Ost und West, dämmert die Heldin vor sich hin. Minutiös registriert sie die mit ihr veranstalteten Prozeduren im Krankenhaus (dem "Spiegelbild der Gesellschaft"), denkt über frühere "Sünden" nach, und erinnert sich: an ihr Berliner Dasein, an den Grenzübergang Friedrichstraße und an den unverbesserlichen Zyniker Urban, mit dessen Leben sie schicksalhaft verbunden war -- damals, als sie noch von Staats wegen und nicht aus medizinischen Gründen unter Beobachtung stand.

In Leibhaftig kommen die Medikamente aus dem Westen rechtzeitig. Die Erzählerin überlebt -- anders als die Gesellschaft, in (und an?) der sie krank geworden ist. "Erzählen lässt sich nichts ohne Zeit", notiert sie in Leibhaftig: "Das Erzählen habe ich aufgegeben, zugleich mit dem Wissen, Fragen, Urteilen, mit dem Behaupten, Lehren und Verstehen." Wolf aber hat in permanentem Wechsel der Erzählperspektive ein großartiges Stück Prosa vorgelegt, menschliches Drama und Zeitdokument zugleich. Eine Krankheitsgeschichte aus den 80er-Jahren, die auch die Krankheitsgeschichte der 80er-Jahre -- und Bilanz einer Epoche -- geworden ist. --Thomas Köster ( )
  hbwiesbaden | Jan 1, 2012 |
Christa Wolf's IN THE FLESH ( Leibhaftig ) is a fascinating allegory of the decline of communist East Germany as one woman's battle with disease.

On her way to an official preview of her latest work, a woman collapses with appendicitis and is driven to a hospital where over a period of time, she undergoes, not only an appendectomy, but a series of operations and treatments to kill the resultant bacterial infection.
The patient's fevered stream-of-consciousness narration drifts in and out of her dreams colored by Goethe's poetry, Greek myth and her memories, her observations of hospital procedures and personnel, and her real-time experiences in the hospital.

Of Wolf's other novels, this one most reminded me of ACCIDENT, A DAY'S NEWS which paralleled the Chernobyl disaster with the narrator's worry over her brother's ongoing brain surgery. In that book, however, the narrator, caught in the daily rounds of life, was observer and commentator. In this novel, the narrator embodies the dissolution of the East German state, just before the fall of the Berlin Wall. A brilliant vision that must carry Wolf's own self-examination. ( )
  janeajones | Jun 26, 2009 |
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Suffering severe abdominal pain, a woman is rushed to the emergency room. Her soaring temperature, her deepening distress, her body's resistance to medicine confound her doctors, who operate repeatedly.Drifting in and out of consciousness, she endures a fitful fever dream in which the boundaries between wakefulness, memory, and delusion blur then totally break down. Old friends appear to her, comforting strangers materialize by her bedside, and her sense of self, of being an "I" who acts rather than a "she" who is acted upon, begins to slip away. Gurney rides through the hospital corridors become fantastic travels through the hallways of hell. Remembered snatches of Goethe's Faust and "Upbuilding" Communist propaganda provide a running commentary on her predicament. The scene, half real, half hallucinated, is the former East Germany, a country of secrets, silences, and unexplained disappearances. The time: just before the fall of the Berlin Wall.Christa Wolf's mesmerizing short novel ? already a best seller in Germany ? is a supreme work of political and philosophical insight by one of Europe's greatest living writers. Alive with myth and metaphor, rich in historical and literary allusion, it draws a nuanced, witty, and utterly compelling portrait of a person and a society close to death yet still capable of recovery.

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