![]() ![]() Irmgard Keun takes a different, perhaps less worthy view to Anna Seghers. In between, there is lots of sitting in cafés making a little last a long time. The life of German exiles, wonderfully captured in Anna Seghers' oppressive Transit, is an endless round of applying for visas, finding accommodation, trying to make money and applying for the next visa. Her mother is her mother, and seems to serve no other purpose than to look after her and her father. Her father is a writer, banned by the Nazis for saying nasty things about them. Schlepped around Europe by her emigré parents but never despairing, she is a wonderful character with many astute observations to make. weren't keen on her strong female protagonists, who had no time at all for Kinder, Küche, Kirche. It's Michael Hofmann's translation of Child of All Nations. It's actually a coincidence, but I've just finished a book by Irmgard Keun - one of the writers whose books were banned by the Nazis. ![]()
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