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Der Teufel sitzt im Spiegel

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' is a book by Nobel Prize-winning author Herta Mller. It was first published in 1991 after Mller's emigration to Germany and is cited in 2010's 'History of the Literary Cultures of East Central Europe', along with 'Traveling on One Leg' and 'The Land of Green Plums', as drawing attention to her work in the West. Titled for a cautionary proverb which Mller's grandmother used to say to hera warning against a variety of evils including vanity, sexual self-awareness and self-reflection in general, each of which could precede a fall, the book is a collection of essays about writing and literature built around the theme.

According to 1997's 'Gender and Germanness', Mller views the proverb politically, focusing on its use by those in powergrandmothers or governmentsto repress non-conformity, permitting them to impose a constructed identity unchallenged by self-evaluation.

takes its subtitle, ("How Perception Invents Itself") from a text it includes that was originally given as a lecture series.

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