The Artificial Silk Girl
by Irmgard Keun
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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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Women, Fiction, Single women, Fiction, general, Single women, fiction, Berlin (germany), fiction, Fiction, historicalPeople
Irmgard Keun (1905-1982)Places
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Jan 31, 2004, Klett Ernst /Schulbuch, Klett (Ernst) Verlag,Stuttgart
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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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