Annemarie Schwarzenbach has become a European cult figure for
bohemian free spirits since the rediscovery of her works in the
late 1980s. "Lyric Novella" is her story of a young man's obsession
with a Berlin variete actress. Despite having his future career
mapped out for him in the diplomatic service, the young man begins
to question all his family values under Sibylle's spell. His
family, future, and social standing become irrelevant when set
against his overriding compulsion to pick her up every night from
the theater so they can go for a drive. Schwarzenbach's clear,
psychologically acute prose makes this novella an evocative
narrative, with many intriguing parallels to her own life. In fact,
she admitted after publication that her hero was in fact a young
woman, not a man, leaving little doubt that "Lyric Novella" is a
literary tale of lesbian love during socially and politically
turbulent times.
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