Lyric novella / Annemarie Schwarzenbach ; translated by Lucy Jones with an afterword by Roger Perret.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schwarzenbach, Annemarie, 1908-1942, author.

Contributor:

Jones, Lucy (Translator), translator.

Perret, Roger, writer of afterword.

Series:

Seagull library of German literature

The Seagull library of German literature

Standardized Title:

Lyrische Novelle English.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Berlin (Germany)--Fiction.

Berlin (Germany).

Germany--Berlin.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xii, 125 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : Seagull Books, 2022.

Language Note:

Translated from the German.

Summary:

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.

ISBN:

1803090375

9781803090375

OCLC:

1304400238

Publisher Number:

99993507990