Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice As Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura A Novel in Thirteen Books and Seven Intermezzos

Name: Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice As Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura A Novel in Thirteen Books and Seven Intermezzos
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ISBN: 9780803282605

ISBN-10: 0803282605

ISBN-13: 9780803282605

Edition: 2000

Authors: Irmtraud Morgner, Jeanette Clausen, Silke von der Emde, Silke Von Erde

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Set in the German Democratic Republic of the early 1970s,The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice—a landmark novel now translated into English for the first time—is a highly entertaining adventure story as well as a feminist critique of GDR socialism, science, history, and aesthetic theory. In May 1968, after an eight-hundred-year sleep, Beatrice awakens in her Provence château. Looking for work, she makes her way to Paris in the aftermath of the student uprisings, then to the GDR (recommended to her as the “promised land for women”), where she meets Laura Salman, socialist trolley driver, writer, and single mother, who becomes her minstrel and alter ego. Their exploits—Beatrice on…

Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Publication date: 3/1/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 495
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.496
Language: English



Introduction


Translator's Note


The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura


Structural Plan of the Novel


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