Herta Müller, from the German-speaking minority of Romania’s Banat, is one of the most important German-language writers of our time. The work of Aglaia Blioumi, associate professor of the Department of German Language and Literature of NKUA, aspires to give a global picture of Müller’s oeuvre by presenting selective samples of prose, essays and collages, and on the other hand to carry out a close reading aiming at cross-culturally fruitful interpretations.

With the assistance of several essays, her hermetic writing and her personal poetics are unlocked, given that – with the exception of a few literary critics – Greek-language research on the 2009 Nobel Prize-winning author is scarce. Also, given that in Greece intercultural theories in the field of grammatology are almost unknown, the present study is dedicated to their presentation, concentrating on the German-speaking area. In this context, various trends in cultural theories are discussed, such as “intercultural German philology”, “intercultural hermeneutics”, and influences on the paradigm change (cultural turn), coming from the Anglo-Saxon area, are analyzed.