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Twilight (Paperback)
Susanne Kord; Elsa Bernstein
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R821
Discovery Miles 8 210
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Elsa Bernstein lived at the center of Munich's cultural life from
the 1890s into the next century. Her literary salon was frequented
by such authors as Rainer Maria Rilke, Theodor Fontane, Henrik
Ibsen, and Thomas Mann. Her plays, written under the pseudonym
Ernst Rosmer, are noteworthy for their unconventional female
figures, uninhibited language, taboo subjects, and realistic
detail. Susanne Kord, the editor and translator of Twilight,
discusses the reception of Bernstein's works—at first
enthusiastic, then increasingly sexist—and the theme, in
Twilight, of the culturally sanctioned oppression of women. In this
naturalist drama, a woman eye surgeon treats the daughter of a man
who is prejudiced against educated women. Her successful treatment
wins the father's affection for her, and they fall in love. She is
ready to give up medicine for wedded bliss—her wish is to become
"very happily stupid—but finds misery instead.
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