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Lyric Novella

Lyric Novella

Schwarzenbach, Annemarie
Jones, Lucy Renner
Jones, Lucy

Paperback

Series: The Seagull Library of German Literature

Fiction Anthologies

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ISBN10: 1803090375
ISBN13: 9781803090375
Publisher: Sea Boating
Published: Aug 5 2022
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.35
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

Schwarzenbach's clear, psychologically acute prose makes this novella an evocative narrative, with many intriguing parallels to her own life.

Annemarie Schwarzenbach--journalist, novelist, antifascist, archaeologist, and traveler--has become a European cult figure for bohemian free spirits since the rediscovery of her works in the late 1980s. Lyric Novella is her story of a young man's obsession with a Berlin variété actress. Despite having his future career mapped out for him in the diplomatic service, the young man begins to question all his family values under Sibylle's spell. His family, future, and social standing become irrelevant when set against his overriding compulsion to pick her up every night from the theater so they can go for a drive. Bringing the story back to her own life, Schwarzenbach admitted after publication that her hero was in fact a young woman, not a man, leaving little doubt that Lyric Novella is a literary tale of lesbian love during socially and politically turbulent times.

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