Anneliese's House

Best known now for her involvement with Nietzsche, Rilke, and Freud, Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861-1937) first became famous for fiction and criticism that engaged provocatively with "the woman question." In recent years, the author's literary treatment of the challenges facing women in a patriarchal society has awakened renewed interest. Anneliese's House is the first English translation of her last and most masterful work of fiction, the 1921 Das Haus: Familiengeschichte vom Ende vorigen Jahrhunderts (The House: A Family Story from the End of the Nineteenth Century). Anneliese Branhardt, the book's protagonist, long ago renounced a career as a pianist to raise a family with her physician husband, Frank. She worries about her son Balduin - an aspiring poet modeled on Rilke - and about her equally free-spirited daughter Gitta. She is haunted by memories of a daughter who died in childhood and anxious about a risky, late pregnancy. With her domestic harmony threatened by her own stirrings of autonomy and her children's growing independence, Anneliese finds the future both frightening and promising. The edition is fully annotated, with a critical introduction and bibliography.

Info autore

Lou Andreas-Salomé; edited and translated by Frank Beck and Raleigh Whitinger

Riassunto

The first English translation of a presciently modern portrayal of emerging feminist sensibilities in a nineteenth-century family, by one of Germany's leading pre-First World War writers.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Lou Andreas-Salome, Frank Beck, Raleigh Whitinger, Lou Andreas-Salomé
• Con la collaborazione di: Frank Beck (Editore), Raleigh Whitinger (Editore), Frank Beck (Traduzione), Raleigh Whitinger (Traduzione)
• Editore: Boydell & Brewer
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 30.06.2021
• Categoria: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica
• EAN: 9781640141018
• ISBN: 978-1-64014-101-8
• Serie: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture; Women and Gender in German Stu > 6; Studies in German Literature L; Women and Gender in German Studies