Gilgi, One of Us - Irmgard Keun frustrated artistic ambitions

frustrated artistic ambitions

love affairs

Translator: Desmond Lee

combining a plain and at times almost colloquial style with a fantastic plot'

a Latin professor

Gilgi, One of Us - Irmgard Keun frustrated artistic ambitionsGilgi knows where she's going in life: she's ambitious, focused and determined, even when her boss tries it on with her, even when her parents reveal a terrible secret on her twenty first birthday. Then she meets the charming but feckless Martin and, for the first time, Gilgi finds herself bewilderingly and dangerously derailed. Irmgard Keun's electrifying debut was an instant sensation in Weimar Germany, with its frank, fearless exploration of sex,