Origine: Da Parola d'autore. I lemmi del vocabolario europeo 2009, Corriere della sera, 8 ottobre 2009.
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“Il palato è più grande della testa, una cupola, alto e penetrante fin nel cranio.”
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In viaggio su una gamba sola
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Herta Müller: Frasi in inglese
“When we don't speak, said Edgar, we become unbearable, and when we do, we make fools of ourselves.”
Origine: The Land of Green Plums
“There’s an unspoken law that you should never start to cry if you have too many reasons to do so.”
Origine: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 68
“No novels, since you just read them once and never again.”
Origine: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 7
Michael Hulse and Philip Boehm translation, Picador 2002, p. 81
The Appointment (1997)
“The time for eating otrach orach is over. But not the hunger, which is always greater than we are.”
Origine: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 17
“There (Kaschau) the mountains stare down through our heads until we die.”
Origine: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 55
Michael Hulse and Philip Boehm translation, Picador 2002, p. 80
The Appointment (1997)
“The world is not a costume ball”
Origine: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 5
“Being a stranger is hard, but being a stranger when you're so impossibly close is unbearable.”
Origine: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 261
“You can think all kinds of things. But you can't know for sure.”
Origine: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 61
“Hunger is not a bunker or a bed frame, otherwise it could be measured. Hunger is not an object.”
Origine: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 81
“Inside the camp the we-form is singular.”
Origine: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 251
“Boredom is fear's patience. Fear doesn't want to exaggerate.”
Origine: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 198
Michael Hulse and Philip Boehm translation, Picador 2002, p. 92
The Appointment (1997)
“I simply wanted to go to a place that didn't know who I was.”
Origine: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 2
“I was my own thief, the words came out of nowhere and caught me.”
Origine: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 4
“Hunger devours nearly all the artistry.”
Origine: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 74
“Half starved humans are really neither masculine nor feminine but genderless, like objects.”
Origine: The Hunger Angel (2012), p. 149