Description:
The article shows the general specifics of the work of Herta Müller, one of the most famous contemporary German writers. Her books The Lowlands (Niederungen, 1982), Traveling on One Leg (Reisende auf einem Bein, 1989), The Fox Was Already a Hunter (Der Fuchs war damals schon der Jäger, 1992) , Heart-Beast (Herztier, 1994), Hunger and Silk (Hunger und Seide, 1995), Trapped (In der Falle, 1996), Today I would rather not meet (Heute wär ich mir lieber nicht begegnet, 1997), Alien look, or Life is a shoal on public display (Der Fremde Blick oder Das Leben ist ein Furz in der Laterne, 1999), Swing of breath (Atemschaukel, 2009), collections of poetic collages and others – all have a common semantic focus associated with the opposition of the individual to the state, and the individual view of history to objective facts. H. Müller’s creativity is considered as a process of painful displacement of the psychological traumas of youth and the time of personal formation from the author’s consciousness. The conscious connection of H. Müller to the modern liberal project in social thought determines her biased assessments of historical events.