Hello Gentle Reader
This may be old to news to some who have already be informed about the entire ordeal, but it is new news to me, about hearing about this more the miraculous freedom that a now surely exiled writer and Chinese Communist Party/Communist China, author Liao Yiwu and his newly acquired freedom he has obtained when he left China in the early summer of two thousand and eleven. He left China and arrived at Berlin in Germany the sixth of July two thousand and eleven. Liao Yiwu has further made headlines when he read at the eleventh Berlin Literature Festival. There Liao Yiwu met a writers in arms just like himself, who had escaped communist, and oppression and discovered what it means to be an individual. He met a friend and an ally in Herta Müller the two thousand nine Nobel Laureate in Literature; who though a quiet and shy author, even borderline hermetic and reclusive as some have described her, made headlines and composed herself with grace and a very dignified demeanour in the face of flashing bulbs of camera’s as she greeted another Chinese Communist Party/Communist China dissident author Bei Ling at the Frankfurt Book Fair. Herta Müller has been very active with these Chinese authors, and also an avid supporter of the two thousand and ten Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Liu Xiaobo. However her support for these three authors and fellow Laureate has also caused Herta Müller less than a welcome response, by others; however Herta Müller has been championed for her criticism and voice for those who suffer and suffered as she had under Nicolae Ceaușescu and his Communist Romanian Regime.
Herta Müller had stated:
“I am happy to be able to somehow support them in one way or another. If I could use the [Nobel] prize to somehow offer them sanctuary…I know, all dictatorships are alike in their dealings with human beings. Individuality is immaterial; no individual is permitted his or her own say.”
The Nobel Laureate in Literature has also been applauded for her note and observations of how many totalitarian governments have killed many individuals to maintain absolute power:
“Next to China is Cuba, for instance, or Iran or North Korea. One needs to have courage, guts and responsibility.”
But Herta Müller also does more than just discuss the horrors and her absolute contempt and disgust for totalitarian governments and dictatorships, when presented with a petition to free the Chinese Human Rights attorney Gao Zhisheng (which has been reported that the attorney who has disappeared in two thousand and nine, has been subjected to torture), the Nobel Laureate in Literature signs her name.
However as it had been stated above Herta Müller has not been met with kindness and applause over the entire affair, over Liu Xiaobo. Published by Siebenbürgische Zeitung a Romanian newspaper for the German-speaking minority in Romania, published an open letter, written by a group of Chinese democracy advocates had stated:
“She is certainly entitled to voice her support for Liu Xiaobo," the signatories wrote. "However, she used abusive language against those who criticized Liu.”
And continued to say:
“This assertion and attack of her style was just like that of the propaganda during the era of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania.”
Herta Müller also went on to state that she had received some unpleasant e-mails from some of the signatories. However the Nobel Laureate in Literature received support from the head of the PEN center in Taipei Tienchi Martin-Liao, who had criticized the letter, calling it offensive. Yet I cannot help that this is all irritating, and slightly adolescent, Herta Müller a Nobel Laureate in Literature, a communist survivor, who had witnessed the horrors and absurdities of communism and what it means to live under a dictatorship, this all must be both frustrating and laughable. Herta Müller morals are in the right place. Her views are solid in their evidence witnessed, and her ethics, are strong. For anyone to say that her “attacks,” (views are much more appropriate and no biased view) are “like that of the propaganda during the era of Nicolae Ceausescu in Romania,” is also a comment that is certainly undignified and insulating.
Herta Müller had presented a speech about Liao Yiwu and his new, which will be published in English as “Testimonials.” Herta Müller’s speech titled “Torment and Blessings,” and praises Liao Yiwu and all that the author has accomplished and torment that he has endured.
Though as she states in the end: “Dear Yiwu, rest assured that your bitter fortune will be joined by plain good fortune. Actually, it is already there today.” With this I too hope that Liao Yiwu finds good fortune away from his homeland, and that someday that the political atmosphere in China changes. I strongly support Herta Müller and her cause, and her strength to help freedom of speech and individuals prevail in times of horror.
To read the full speech please visit this website:
http://www.signandsight.com/features/2168.html
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All References and Information was collected from these sources:
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/23997/
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,6504868,00.html
http://www.zimbio.com/pictures/8KVfuMmeP4U/Liao+Yiwu+Reads+11th+Berlin+Literature+Festival/Y-shDFrXCqh
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