I'm puzzled by a Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung article by Jochen Hieber looking back at the literature of GDR -- and making the claim that only one work of true 'world literature' was produced under the East German regime (arguing that pretty much everything else of note was pretty much solely of (greater-)German interest): Jurek Becker's Jacob the Liar.
I lapped up everything of Becker's back in the day (the 1980s), but can't say that this stood out above a heap of other works that seemed to be of greater-than-just-national-interest.
Of course, that Robin Williams film version (see the IMDb page) didn't help much. But you can still get your copy from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.
I lapped up everything of Becker's back in the day (the 1980s), but can't say that this stood out above a heap of other works that seemed to be of greater-than-just-national-interest.
Of course, that Robin Williams film version (see the IMDb page) didn't help much. But you can still get your copy from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk.