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El último relato de una gran escritora del siglo xx, un homenaje a la vida y al recuerdo.


En 2011, poco antes de morir, la escritora Christa Wolf decidió rendir homenaje a su marido con un regalo muy especial por su sexagésimo aniversario de casados. Se trataba de August, una pequeña joya de la literatura alemana inspirada en los recuerdos de infancia de la autora.


Tras el fin de la segunda guerra mundial, un huérfano de ocho años que ha escapado de Prusia Oriental ingresa en un remoto sanatorio para tuberculosos instalado en un antiguo castillo. Allí conoce a Lilo, una adolescente que irradia valentía y ternura. Décadas más tarde, mientras conduce un autocar a orillas del Elba, August revive aquel el descubrimiento de la amistad, la fragilidad de la inocencia, la belleza de un gesto amable en un mundo devastado por la guerra.


«El último libro de Christa Wolf es indefinidamente bello, y a la vez conmovedor y luminoso.» Annie Ernaux


«Leerlo debería ser un obligado tributo a una escritora excepcional, independiente y única.» José María Guelbenzu


«Wolf escribió libros que han perdurado, grandes novelas alegóricas, relatos personales sobre la enfermedad y el dolor.» Günter Grass


«Una de las más bellas historias de Christa Wolf. Tan tierna y elegante, fresca, concisa y cálida, todo al mismo tiempo.» Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung


«La novela póstuma de Christa Wolf es un acto de reconciliación con su propia vida.» Florian Kessler (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

35 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 23, 2026

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Christa Wolf

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Novelist, short-story writer, essayist, critic, journalist, and film dramatist Christa Wolf was a citizen of East Germany and a committed socialist, and managed to keep a critical distance from the communist regime. Her best-known novels included “Der geteilte Himmel” (“Divided Heaven,” 1963), addressing the divisions of Germany, and “Kassandra” (“Cassandra,” 1983), which depicted the Trojan War.

She won awards in East Germany and West Germany for her work, including the Thomas Mann Prize in 2010. The jury praised her life’s work for “critically questioning the hopes and errors of her time, and portraying them with deep moral seriousness and narrative power.”

Christa Ihlenfeld was born March 18, 1929, in Landsberg an der Warthe, a part of Germany that is now in Poland. She moved to East Germany in 1945 and joined the Socialist Unity Party in 1949. She studied German literature in Jena and Leipzig and became a publisher and editor.

In 1951, she married Gerhard Wolf, an essayist. They had two children. Christa Wolf died in December 2011.

(Bloomberg News)

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