The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun

The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun

Doris flees a dead-end provincial life for Berlin, determined to become a glittering film star or at least to live like one, narrating her adventures among wealthy men, shabby rented rooms and constant reinvention with irrepressible wit even as her situation grows more precarious.

Keun wrote the novel in 1932 as Weimar Germany's decadence was already curdling toward catastrophe, and Doris's voice — vain, funny, self-aware about her own self-deceptions — captures a specific moment of desperate glamour just before the Nazis banned the book outright.

A sharp, funny, ultimately poignant portrait of Weimar Berlin, banned by the Nazis on publication.

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