Heiner Müller, East German author of Hamletmachine and Medea, was the preemient German successor of Bertholt Brecht at the end of the twentieth century. In this collection of essays, stories, and interviews conducted by Sylvère Lotringer, Müller reflects on the laws of history from the standpoint of someone straddling the Berlin Wall. Müller saw the wall as both repression and protection of his compatriots from the inevitable triumph of capitalism. His work evokes the wit and compactness of Brecht, with an added psychotropic dimension. Haunted by World War II, Müller was a leading figure in European contemporary literature, whose writing anticipates a future beyond the bi-polarity of twentieth-century politics.