The Artificial Silk Girl
Autor Irmgard Keun Traducere de Kathie von Ankumen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 sep 2025
Doris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all-night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men - and as Doris sinks ever lower, she resorts to desperate measures to survive. Very funny and intensely moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a poignant exploration of the doomed pursuit of fame and glamour.
The Artificial Silk Girl was a huge bestseller in Weimar Germany before the Nazis banned it, and is today Keun's best-loved book in Germany. Funny, fresh and radical in its dissection of the limited options available to working women, it is a novel that speaks to our times.
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Notă biografică
Irmgard
Keun
was
born
in
Berlin
in
1905
and
found
instant
success
with
her
novelsGilgi(1931)
andThe
Artificial
Silk
Girl(1932).
Everything
changed
in
1933
when
the
Nazis
blacklisted
her
and
destroyed
her
books;
in
response,
she
attempted
to
sue
the
Gestapo
for
loss
of
earnings.
She
left
Germany
(and
her
husband)
in
1936
and
lived
in
exile
in
Europe,
where
she
wroteChild
of
All
Nations(1936)
andAfter
Midnight(1937).
She
sneaked
back
into
Germany
in
1940
under
a
false
name
and
spent
the
rest
of
the
war
in
Cologne.
In
later
years,
she
wrote
for
magazines
and
radio
and
raised
a
daughter
alone.
She
died
in
1982.
Recenzii
Just
now
I
want
to
tell
everyone
about
Irmgard
Keun
...
A
great
writer
Keun has few rivals - I can think of none - as a chronicler of the ambience or the consequences of the rise of Nazism
The Artificial Silk Girlfollows Doris into the underbelly of a city that had once seemed all glamour and promise ... Kathie von Ankum's English translation will bring this masterwork to the foreground once more, giving a new generation the chance to discover Keun for themselves
Damned by the Nazis, hailed by the feminists ... a truly charming window into a young woman's life in the early 1930s
A young girl navigates interwar German society and the expectations - or lack thereof - placed upon women, in this poignant, melancholy novel ... This heartbreaking story of dashed hopes is one that still has the power to affect and inspire
Keun has few rivals - I can think of none - as a chronicler of the ambience or the consequences of the rise of Nazism
The Artificial Silk Girlfollows Doris into the underbelly of a city that had once seemed all glamour and promise ... Kathie von Ankum's English translation will bring this masterwork to the foreground once more, giving a new generation the chance to discover Keun for themselves
Damned by the Nazis, hailed by the feminists ... a truly charming window into a young woman's life in the early 1930s
A young girl navigates interwar German society and the expectations - or lack thereof - placed upon women, in this poignant, melancholy novel ... This heartbreaking story of dashed hopes is one that still has the power to affect and inspire