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Before Making love and the City there is Bridget Jones. And before Bridget Jones was The Artificial Silk Young lady.In 1931, a woman writer surviving in Germany was inspired by Anita Loos's Gentlemen Prefer Blondes to describe pre-war Berlin and the age of cinematic glamour through the eyes of a female. The resulting novel, The Artificial Silk Young lady, became an acclaimed bestseller and a masterwork of German literature, in the custom of Christopher Isherwood's Berlin Experiences and Bertolt Brecht's Three Penny Opera. Like Isherwood and Brecht, Keun exposed the dark underside of Berlin's "fantastic twenties" with empathy and credibility. However, a Nazi censorship plank suspended Keun's work in 1933 and ruined all existing copies of The Artificial Silk Young lady. Only one British translation was published, in the uk, before the publication vanished in the chaos of the ensuing warfare. Today, more than seven years later, the story of this quintessential "materials lady" remains as relevant as ever, as an accessible new translation brings this lost basic to light once again. Other Press is very happy to announce the republication of The Artificial Silk Young lady, elegantly translated by noted Germanist Kathie von Ankum, and with a fresh release by Harvard teacher Maria Tatar.
