Keun, Irmgard, 1905-1982.
The artificial silk girl / Irmgard Keun ; translated by Kathie von Ankum ; introduction by Maria Tatar. - New York : Other Press, c2002. - xxi, 194 p. ; 20 cm.
"The Artificial Silk Girl is a portrait of the life of a young German woman at a time when the force of modernity in the Western world was at its most potent: with technology exploding and women freely entering the workforce, a new and frightening sense of existential individuality emerged. In the days before the Nazis came to power and suspended the development of German culture, Doris is a character whose irony and psychological insight startingly mirror those of her contemporaries in France, England, and America."--BOOK JACKET.
1892746816 (pbk.) 9781590514542
2001058023
Young women--Germany--Fiction
Germany--Fiction--1918-1933--Social conditions
PT2621.E92 / K813 2002
833/.912
The artificial silk girl / Irmgard Keun ; translated by Kathie von Ankum ; introduction by Maria Tatar. - New York : Other Press, c2002. - xxi, 194 p. ; 20 cm.
"The Artificial Silk Girl is a portrait of the life of a young German woman at a time when the force of modernity in the Western world was at its most potent: with technology exploding and women freely entering the workforce, a new and frightening sense of existential individuality emerged. In the days before the Nazis came to power and suspended the development of German culture, Doris is a character whose irony and psychological insight startingly mirror those of her contemporaries in France, England, and America."--BOOK JACKET.
1892746816 (pbk.) 9781590514542
2001058023
Young women--Germany--Fiction
Germany--Fiction--1918-1933--Social conditions
PT2621.E92 / K813 2002
833/.912