SOURCE: “A Blade of Time,” in Belles Lettres, Vol. 4, No. 4, Summer, 1989, p. 34.

In the following review, Manos offers a positive assessment of The Fourth Dimension and Accident.

Christa Wolf, a citizen of the German Democratic Republic, has achieved international status as one of the leading visionary women writers of our time. Indeed, in her deeply personal, highly experimental novels, notably Cassandra, The Quest for Christa T., A Model Childhood, and No Place on Earth, she appears to have answered in advance the recent call by feminist critics for women writers to forge narrative strategies independent of the male-dominated literary establishment. In The Fourth Dimension, a series of interviews and conversations spanning a decade, Wolf openly discusses what it means to be a woman and a writer, repeatedly insisting that the author must not be absent from her own work. In Accident, her latest novel, she gives us a...