Am I a Redundant Human Being? by Mela Hartwig, Kerri A. Pierce (Translator)
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Overview: Aloisia Schmidt is an ordinary secretary with a burning question: am I a redundant human being? She’s neither pretty nor ugly (though she wishes she was hideous: at least that would be something), has no imagination, and is forced to live vicariously through “borrowed” fantasy-fantasy, that is, borrowed from books, plays, even other people’s lives. She loves to hate herself, and loves for other people to hate her too. In a guilt-ridden, manic, self-obsessed confession, Aloisia indulges her masochistic tendencies to the fullest, putting her entire life on trial by telling her story-a story, she assures us, that’s “so laughably mundane” it’s really no story at all.
Mela Hartwig was born in 1893 in Vienna, where she went on to have a successful career as an actress. After marrying, Hartwig left the stage and turned her hand to writing, where she developed a name for herself as a modernist and a feminist. In 1938, Hartwig and her husband immigrated to London, where she befriended Virginia Woolf. She died in 1967.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
“Finally, the time has come for Mela Hartwig’s rediscovery! The contradictions, the constant fluctuation between passion and dispassionate observation, make this office romance-written in the form of a heated confession-outrageously modern and thrilling:’ – Frankfurter Rundschau
“The confession of an astonishing self-abasement: a tantalizing, unforgettable book:’ – Die Presse
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