Spatial language and dissolving dichotomies in Wolfgang Hilbig's "Ich".

Published four years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the narration of Wolfgang Hilbig's novel "Ich" spans the four years preceding the Wende. [i]or[/i] part of to the other his protagonist M. W., a German Democratic Republic (GDR) writer and Stasi informant, Hilbig counterfeits the West as one as well as the other an ideal destination and a design of enlightenment. At the same time, the writer does not wax nostalgic for the East in the novel on the contrary instead, conveys a strong faculty of perception of ambivalence and ambiguity toward the pair sides. Hilbig calls attention to the intrinsic arbitrariness of the physical East-West division