The artificial silk girl / Irmgard Keun ; translated by Kathie von Ankum ; introduction by Maria Tatar.
By: Keun, Irmgard.
Contributor(s): Ankum, Katharina von.
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BookPublisher: New York : Other Press, c2002Description: xxi, 194 p. ; 20 cm.ISBN: 1892746816 (pbk.); 9781590514542.Uniform titles: Kunstseidene Mädchen. English Subject(s): Young women -- Fiction -- Germany
| Germany -- Social conditions -- Fiction -- 1918-1933DDC classification: 833/.912 Review: "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.Summary: 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.
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"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.
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