Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen

Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen

first edition
Author	Herta Müller
Language	German
Genre	Poetry, collage
Publisher	Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich
Publication date	August 2012
Pages	192
ISBN	978-3-446-23857-2

Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen (Father's on the Phone with the Flies) is a collection of collage poems by Nobel Prize-winning writer Herta Müller first published in 2012.[1] The 191 collages are divided between five sections.[2] As with most of Müller's work, one of the collection's underlying themes is political, stemming from her experience living under the dictatorship of Nicolae Ceaușescu in Communist Romania.[3]

A selection of 73 of the poems was published in English in 2018, translated by Thomas Cooper, alongside the German originals.[4]

References

1. "Herta Müllers "Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen"". Focus (in German). 31 August 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
2. Ottschofski, Edith (23 September 2012). "Vom "Herzkran" und der "Heimat zum Quadrat"". Siebenbürgischer Zeitung. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
3. "Ein Telefonat mit den Fliegen". Frankfurter Neue Presse. 12 October 2012. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
4. "Father's on the phone with the flies: a selection". University of Alberta Libraries. Retrieved 23 July 2018.

Further reading

• Dunker, Axel (21 August 2017). "9. Collagen" [Collages]. In Eke, Norbert Otto (ed.). Herta Müller-Handbuch (in German). J.B. Metzler. pp. 71–78. ISBN 978-3-476-05401-2.