Em memória de Christa T.: Domina o e exclus o social

This paper intends to point out the central themes in Christa Wolf’s narrative Em busca de Christa T.: domination and social exclusion, both related to memory and writing. Published first in 1968 in the former German Democratic Republic, thus in an authoritarian context, the book caused polemics in the GDR academic spheres because of its contradiction to the official conception of literature of that time. Now, forty years afterwards, Wolf’s narrative can be appreciated for its inherent social criticism, for its characterization of a society which excludes people, causing disillusionment and melancholy.