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Herta Müller has written several volumes of postcards, describing the work on the collages as a "relaxation exercise" from the laborious epic work. Her collage work is heterogeneous, works with the principle of chance, deals with clippings. The author tries o writing with scissors that can be positioned somewhere between literature and the fine arts. The volume Father Telephones with the Flies enables a political reading in which an I speaks about his traumas during the dictatorship, about interrogations, shadows and also includes the family sphere. Image and writing complement each other.

The border experience is the basic experience in the novel Engelszungen. There are characters who escape, emigrate, moving between several countries whose identity is unstable and changing. Life between cultures and with different identities determined their nomadic wandering around, where the transit movement as the basic experience has also a political dimension. The scientific contribution analyzes inner and outer boundaries, examines identitary border crossings, illuminates the major characters, their different identity designs, the restless in theirwandering and strategies of adaptation to the West.