The Artificial Silk Girl
In 1931, a young woman writer living in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to describe pre-war Berlin and the age of cinematic glamour through the eyes of a woman. The resulting novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, became an acclaimed bestseller and a masterwork of German literature, in the tradition of Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Stories and Bertolt Brecht's Three Penny Opera. Like Isherwood and Brecht, Keun revealed the dark underside of Berlin's golden twenties with empathy and honesty. Unfortunately, a Nazi censorship board banned Keun's work in 1933 and destroyed all existing copies of The Artificial Silk Girl.…
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Weitere Autoren: Ankum, Kathie von (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-59051-454-2
- EAN: 9781590514542
- Produktnummer: 23414143
- Verlag: Other Pr Llc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 194 S.
- Masse: H20.3 cm x B13.3 cm x D1.3 cm 266 g
- Gewicht: 266
Über den Autor
Irmgard Keun was born in Berlin in 1905. She published her first novel, GilgióA Girl Just Like Us, in 1931. Her second novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, instantly became a bestseller. After the war, she resumed writing under the name of Charlotte Tralow, enjoying only modest success until her early works were rediscovered and reissued in the late 1970s. She died in 1982 in Cologne.
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