chameleon lies with Christa Ruhl, "the final volume of Hedwig Dohm generation of comprehensive trilogy in the works edition commented before was
By Rolf Loechel
mid-1960s, the American Author Silvia Plath in her book "The Bell Jar" fame. And rightly so. But she was not the first, conceived the title-giving image of her novel. At the beginning of the century Hedwig Dohm has her protagonist in "Christopher Ruhland" can complain that the young girls and women of their time together with their "beautiful original wildness" and - not to forget - her clear mind "under the bell jar" held were . Plath knew that Dohm's book, however, is unlikely. It would have been her Esther Greenwood at Christa Ruhl may well take an example, because Chris would like the glass globe to "smash [n]".
By Christa Ruhl "is for" Sibilla Dalmar "and" fate of a soul, "then the final volume of Dohms three generations comprehensive trilogy in, edited by Nicolas Müller and Isabel Rohner commented on fifteen volumes originate from complete works of the early feminist. Like its predecessor was also the band of the editors with a clever introduction provided. That Dohm with this book is an "unusually large field of discourse" paces that the integration of the novel in the "cultural and intellectual phases of his action time an even greater role than in" fate of a soul "and" Sibilla Dalmar "plays and that he" before references to cultural and social trends of early modernity, a time that promises up and break in the values at the same time re-negotiated and will be defended vigorously "simply spray can, underline only. At least in the first chapters of the novel can be found on almost every page of hidden quotations and intertextual references. For Dohm draws with both hands from the solid "to the contemporary discourse and presents one with a confusing-sparkling" incidental and opposition of ideas, theories, ideologies "filled" Kaleidoscope of the century. "Therefore, it is even more regrettable that this novel the literature, including feminist, is less discussed than the other two-part trilogy.
In a second Respect, the novel features compared to its two - from predecessors - also today still worth reading. His irony is often ground more finely than in "fate of a soul" and "Sibille Dalmar" or Dohms essays, splits in which the author of the coarse misogynist blocks of contemporary theologians and scientists but also coarse but witty but always and acute wedges. ..
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