The Artificial Silk Girl - Irmgard Keun stretching beyond traditional depictions of

stretching beyond traditional depictions of Italian life

Translator: Raymond Rosenthal

In Repetition

and his encounters are revelatory about both Japanese society and human psychology

the ambitions and shortcomings of the island’s turbulent twentieth century are played out by its occupants

The Artificial Silk Girl - Irmgard Keun stretching beyond traditional depictions ofDoris is going to be a big star. Wearing a stolen fur coat and recently fired from her office job, she takes an all night train to Berlin to make it in the movies. But what she encounters in the city is not fame and fortune, but gnawing hunger, seedy bars, and exploitative men and as Doris sinks ever lower, she resorts to desperate measures to survive. Very funny and intensely moving, this is a dazzling portrait of roaring Berlin in the 1920s, and a