The fact that search provides the basis tor the process of problem. Luca have been found glowing night after night under street lamps and in other illuminated sites for up to 17 nights Ursula Moor, pers. In the book, she asked "Where can I find love and something that doesn't fall apart right away?
She had gone through so much pain for this question, after being borned in a negative family atmosphere with a out of work, lazy, loud mouthed father, being abused by a callous lover who treats her badly and finally rejects her to marry a virgin and being fired after rejecting his boss, she desperately need an inner healing by finding someone to love.
She said in the book "Sleeping with a stranger you don't care about makes a woman bad. You have to know what you're doing it for. Money or love. You can harshly call her promiscuous, you can have great compassion of her adversity, either way, she is Doris, the artificial silk girl.
She made the choices. What is yours? He does not want to continue a relationship with her because he wants to marry a wealthy girl from Munich.
Her mother finds her a job as an extra in a play at the local theater. In an attempt to impress the other girls, Doris lies about being in a relationship with the director. She worries about it catching up to her.
Hubert returns to town. She fears being arrested. Her friend, Therese, helps her flee to Berlin. In Berlin, Doris dates many men in an attempt to meet one who can provide her with what she desires. Nature 54, 66 Download citation.
Issue Date : 21 May Anyone you share the following link with will be able to read this content:. Sorry, a shareable link is not currently available for this article. Provided by the Springer Nature SharedIt content-sharing initiative. Advanced search. Before Sex and the City there was Bridget Jones. In , a young woman writer living in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to describe pre-war Berlin and the age of cinematic glamour through the eyes of a woman.
Like Isherwood and Brecht, Keun revealed the dark underside of Berlin's "golden twenties" with empathy and honesty. Unfortunately, a Nazi censorship board banned Keun's work in and destroyed all existing copies of The Artificial Silk Girl.
Only one English translation was published, in Great Britain, before the book disappeared in the chaos of the ensuing war. Today, more than seven decades later, the story of this quintessential "material girl" remains as relevant as ever, as an accessible new translation brings this lost classic to light once more. Other Press is pleased to announce the republication of The Artificial Silk Girl, elegantly translated by noted Germanist Kathie von Ankum, and with a new introduction by Harvard professor Maria Tatar.
The american accent and mispronounciation of german words was really distracting. Also it was very unclear when the narrator was reading a passage from a new day. There was no pause to indicate. I feel as though I have been in the driving seat of a woman's mind during the early s of pre-Nazi Germany.
Not just any kind of woman, though.
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