by Christine Brückner · Tapa dura · ISBN 9783455003666
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«Wenn du geredet hättest, Desdemona» is a collection of fictional speeches by Christine Brückner, published in 1983 (167 pages, in German).
The author gives voice to real and fictional women from history, mythology and literature, imagining the speeches they never gave. Desdemona, Clytemnestra, Christiane von Goethe, Katharina Luther, Effi Briest, Mary and Sappho are among them. The collection reflects on the female condition and its absence from the historical narrative.
The original subtitle is 'Ungehaltene Reden ungehaltener Frauen'. The edition includes illustrations by Horst Janssen and was published by Hoffmann und Campe in Hamburg.
For readers interested in German literature, feminist fiction and stories that recover the female voice in history.
Christine Brückner was a German writer.
