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Irmgard Keun

The Artificial Silk Girl

A Novel

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Before Sex and the City there was Bridget Jones. And before Bridget Jones was 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 cen… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Ankum, Kathie von (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-1-59051-453-5
  • EAN: 9781590514535
  • Produktnummer: 15735322
  • Verlag: Other Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
  • Seitenangabe: 216 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 2'030 KB

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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