Nobel Prize in Literature 2009. Herta Müller at the complete review is here.
“Her aspiration to purity, moral included, is like an inner sword, it’s as if she had a a sword instead of a spine, as in one of Kafka’s dreams. (…) The writings of Herta Müller are indeed the product of an intense obsession, a unique, paranoid terror of being followed, held in suspicion, persecuted, of having to fight a pervasive and incomprehensible enemy, which is bent on defacing and and misrepresenting her. Her writing is Kafkaesque. ” – Mircea Cărtărescu, Frankfurter Rundschau (12/10/2009)