Extraordinarily candid, Charlotte Roche returns with a provocative, semi-autobiographical novel that explores what is expected of a 21st-century wife and mother.
Helen Memel, an outspoken eighteen-year-old with a childlike stubbornness and a precocious sexual confidence, starts scheming on reuniting her divorced parents.
This study examines how the literary works of Elisabeth Reichart, Charlotte Roche, and Elfriede Jelinek challenge normativity both in their engagement with gender and sexuality and with aesthetic choices.
Takes the recent wave of German autobiographical writing on illness and disability seriously as literature, demonstrating the value of a literary disability studies approach.
You need to read this book if: —you feel that caregiving tasks previously done with ease now require extra motivation and energy to complete; —the compassion you once had is waning, and you find yourself cutting corners to complete ...
... Roche? Pisałem kiedyś o niej, gdy mało kto ją jeszcze znał (jako literatkę). Nawet w Niemczech. Charlotte Roche. Autorka książki, którą przypadkowo odkryłem w poczekalni u dentysty. Dzisiaj (dwa miesiące później) wcale nie potrzeba ...
... Charlotte Roches Fa- milie ums Leben kam , findet sich in der Handlung von Schoßgebete wieder . Charlotte Roche war zur Zeit des Autounfalls 23 Jahre alt und wollte ihren damaligen Freund , den Musikjo- urnalist Eric Pfeil , in London ...
... Charlotte Roche, trans., Wetlands (New York: Grove Press, 2009), 103. Originally published as Feuchtgebiete (Cologne: DuMontVerlag, 2008). 2 Ingeborg Harms, 'Sexualität ist Wahrheit' (Sexuality as Truth), review of Wetlands, by Charlotte ...