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Vater telefoniert mit den Fliegen
2012 collection of poems by Herta Müller From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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]
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A selection of 73 of the poems was published in English in 2018, translated by Thomas Cooper, alongside the German originals.[4]
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