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Anneliese's House (Hardcover)
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Anneliese's House (Hardcover)
Series: Women and Gender in German Studies
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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. 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.
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