They quickly became bestsellers, but their success was short-lived-dubbed “anti-German” by the Nazis, they were both blacklisted. These daring, provocative stories portrayed young women shedding conventional gender roles and adopting more modern and urban attitudes towards love and life. In 1931, at the age of 26, Keun burst into the German literary scene with the novels Gilgi and The Artificial Silk Girl. Only at the very end of her life, after an article article in Stern, did Germany realize Keun’s true literary importance as one of the country’s most stylish, groundbreaking, and morally courageous authors.
Everyone had forgotten her brilliant, heartbreaking books about the Nazi regime, or her death-defying acts of political bravery. Everyone had forgotten her wildly bestselling, radically feminist novels of the Weimar Republic. After being discharged in 1972 she lived an impoverished existence in a small studio apartment. the unsinkable Irmgard Keun » MobyLivesīlacklisted, exiled, mistreated, forgotten… the unsinkable Irmgard Keunįor six years late in her life, the German author Irmgard Keun lived in the psychiatric ward in a hospital in Bonn. N° de ref.Blacklisted, exiled, mistreated, forgotten. Sebald's Austerlitz, and the 2003 Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation.
Anthea Bell is the recipient of the Schlegel Tieck Prize for translation from German, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and the Helen and Kurt Wolff Prize in 2002 for the translation of W. Eventually sentenced to death, she fled the country and staged her own suicide.then snuck back into Germany where she lived undercover for the duration of the war. But her second novel, The Artificial Silk Girl, landed her on the Nazi blacklist. Rmgard Keun (1905❱982) became a sensation in her native Germany with the 1931 publication of her first novel, Gilgi, when she was 21.
After Midnight is a masterpiece that deserves to be read and remembered anew.
It is full of humor and light, even as it describes the first moments of a nightmare. Yet even as it exposes human folly, the book exudes a hopeful humanism. It captures the unbearable tension, contradictions, and hysteria of pre-war Germany like no other novel. In 1937, German author Irmgard Keun had only recently fled Nazi Germany with her lover Joseph Roth when she wrote this slim, exquisite, and devastating book. Volume is in mint condition without marks, tears or folds unclipped dustjacket has light ruffling top edge and otherwise in fine condition. Published by Victor Gollancz, London, 1985. After Midnight, Keun, Irmgard, Translated by Anthea Bell.
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