A Fly Comes Through a Half-Forest

Poetic-political speeches by the Nobel Prize laureate

On dignity and freedom, exile and home and the subversive power of laughter

»I can say that the clearest thing I’ve learned is very simple: Freedom and dignity are always concrete.« Political and literary speeches by the Nobel Prize laureate over the last decade. Urgent and highly topical. Whether Herta Müller refers to the works of Böll, Liao Yiwu or Goldschmidt, or is discussing political events, she always stands up for honesty. She knows the subversive power of laughter, and that there is nothing dictators find so hard to take as the truth. Her view of society does not bend to anyone. When it comes to protecting minorities, the persecuted and those seeking exile, do we stand up for our values.


»An author whose work brings light to dark times using finely-tuned language.«
Felicitas von Lovenberg, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung