An Analysis Of Nicolae Ceaus's Literary Work

“The measure of a man is what he does with power.”
- Plato

Plato’s words echoes the potentialities of the power in man’s hands. The power can enslave or empower. It may carry him to the peaks or destroy him to ashes by his own destiny. Power in the hands of the dictators determines the destiny of that nation. The great paradox is that each and every dictator accumulates such power, climbing the ladder of free speech and after attaining the peak, suppressing the others by not gifting that ladder of speech. European nations faced a great havoc in the 19th century. The catastrophic World Wars I and II not only made them a ‘waste land’ but shattered the peace, integrity among the entire mankind.
The experiences – pain, suffering, trauma, dislocation and the mental agony, and the

The Nobel Committee declared her works to be “with the concentration of poetry and the frankness of pose, depicts the landscape of the dispossessed.” She has written many novels, collage poems and essays in her native mother tongue, German. All her writings bear witness for the trauma that she suffered under the totalitarian regime of Nicolae Ceausescu. Müller, picturizes her emotions through her characters and all her works are considered as semi-autobiographical.
This paper explores how Müller, in The Land of Green Plums(1996)unfolds the resistance of the German-minority people in Romania to confront the iron fist of the hegemony of the totalitarian regime under Nicolae Ceausescu. Her characters bring forth the resilience of the minority community as a victim of the hegemony and the great force that drives them to bear the witness of the past. Müller’s works represents some of the most troublesome legacies of the twentieth century – dictatorship, exile, political suppression and life under