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The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura: A Novel in Thirteen Books and Seven Intermezzos Paperback - 2000

by Irmtraud Morgner; Jeanette Clausen (Translator); Introduction by 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 chateau. 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 a quest to find the unicorn, Laura on maternity leave in Berlin -- often require black-magic interventions by the Beautiful Melusine, who is half dragon and half woman.

Creating a montage of genres and text types, including documentary material, poems, fairy tales, interviews, letters, newspaper reports, theoretical texts, excerpts from earlier books of her own, pieces by other writers, and parodies of typical GDR genres, Irmtraud Morgner attempts to write women into history and retell our great myths from a feminist perspective.

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  • Title The Life and Adventures of Trobadora Beatrice as Chronicled by Her Minstrel Laura: A Novel in Thirteen Books and Seven Intermezzos
  • Author Irmtraud Morgner; Jeanette Clausen (Translator); Introduction by Silke Von Erde
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 495
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln
  • Date 2000-03-01
  • Features Glossary
  • ISBN 9780803282605 / 0803282605
  • Weight 1.49 lbs (0.68 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.05 x 6.02 x 1.1 in (22.99 x 15.29 x 2.79 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1970's
    • Chronological Period: 1950-1999
    • Cultural Region: Central Europe
    • Cultural Region: Germany
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 99052824
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Choice, 01/01/2001, Page 911
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/29/2000, Page 53

About the author

Irmtraud Morgner (1933-90) was one of the most innovative and witty feminist writers to emerge from the GDR. Jeanette Clausen is an associate professor of German at Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne. She is a coeditor of "German Feminism: Readings in Politics and Literature" and is a past editor of "Women in German Yearbook."
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