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Lyric Novella Annemarie Schwarzenbach

Lyric Novella By Annemarie Schwarzenbach

Lyric Novella by Annemarie Schwarzenbach


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Summary

A novella that tells the story of a young man's obsession with a Berlin variete 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.

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Lyric Novella Summary

Lyric Novella by Annemarie Schwarzenbach

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

Lyric Novella Reviews

"The subject is not failed love - Sibylle's apparent emotional coldness - but the failure of love - the protagonist's helpless inability, in the crucial moment, to accept his human responsibility toward the beloved." (Neue Zurcher Zeitung.) "The work bears the face of its time, but it is so gentle, silent and veiled that one can barely exclude the person behind the mask. A mask is in fact this face, because the hero is a heroine who does not want to be seen." (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung)"

About Annemarie Schwarzenbach

Annemarie Schwarzenbach (1908-42) was a writer, journalist, and photographer who worked periodically as an archaeologist. Lucy Renner Jones is a freelance translator living in Berlin.

Additional information

CIN085742016XA
9780857420169
085742016X
Lyric Novella by Annemarie Schwarzenbach
Used - Well Read
Hardback
Seagull Books London Ltd
2011-10-07
140
N/A
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