We know what is coming | Krista Wolf

At the beginning of summer 1804, a literary social gathering brought together the Romantic poetess Caroline von Jundrudde (1780-1806) and the famous playwright Heinrich von Kleist (1777-1811), or it could have. Christa Wolf based her story on parts of real letters to imagine a meeting, which did not happen in reality, between two writers who share a sense of alienation in their society, and are aware of the impossibility of life under the lack of freedom, to the extent that each of them would commit suicide in reality, a few years after the events of the novel. It is an inspiring spiritual story of a bond between two creators, between a man and a woman, between realism and hope for a different tomorrow. Wolf narrated it in an economical and intense style, blending, with unparalleled genius, internal dialogues and actual exchanged words. Salah Hilal succeeded in conveying all these features into Arabic in a trustworthy and elegant translation.