For the first time in English, a contemporary and friend of Virginia Woolf and Stefan Zweig gives us the definitive portrait of a woman lost on the margins of modern life.
Format: Paperback / softback
CONTRIBUTORS: Mela Hartwig
EAN: 9781564785817
COUNTRY: United States
PAGES: 151
WEIGHT: 204 g
HEIGHT: 210 mm
PUBLISHED BY: Dalkey Archive Press
DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-10-07
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GENRE: FICTION / Literary
WIDTH: 221 mm
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Book Themes:
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
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 feminist. In 1938, Hartwig and her husband immigrated to London, where she befriended Virginia Woolf. She died in London in 1967. Kjersti A. Skomsvold was born in 1979 in Oslo. "The Faster I Walk, the Smaller I Am" is her first novel.
