An edition of Das kunstseidene Mädchen (1932)

The Artificial Silk Girl

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An edition of Das kunstseidene Mädchen (1932)

The Artificial Silk Girl

by

  • ★★★★ 4.0 (3 ratings) ·
  • 31 Want to read
  • 4 Have read

"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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Language
English
Pages
216

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Subjects

Women, Fiction, Single women, Fiction, general, Single women, fiction, Berlin (germany), fiction, Fiction, historical, Biography, Criticism and interpretation

People

Irmgard Keun (1905-1982)

Places

Germany, Berlin (Germany)

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Library of Congress
PT2621.E92 K813 2002

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Number of pages
216
Dimensions
7.5 x 5.1 x 0.4 inches
Weight
12.3 ounces

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL8720013M
Internet Archive
artificialsilkgi00keun
ISBN 10
1892746816
ISBN 13
9781892746818
LCCN
2001058023
OCLC/WorldCat
48467053
LibraryThing
489694
Goodreads
370756

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL3827332W

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Work Description

The story of Doris, beautiful and striving, who vows to write down all that happens to her as the star of her own life story. But instead of scripting what she hopes will be a quick rise to fame and fortune as either an actress or the mistress/wife of a wealthy man, she describes a slow descent into near prostitution and homelessness. Prewar Berlin is not the dazzling and exciting city of promise it seems; Doris unwittingly reveals a bleak, seamy urban landscape.

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