Lilly and Her Slave
Written by Hans Fallada
Narrated by Christine Rendel
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About this audiobook
At the time, a court-appointed doctor was assigned to assess the extent to which Fallada could be made accountable. This expert opinion, thought to have been lost, was only recently rediscovered. It is an extraordinary find, because it includes unpublished and rewritten stories by Fallada that focus on hitherto taboo topics such as abortion.
The title character, Lilly, sets out to "play" with a young man, but ends up losing control of the situation. Barely able to hide her questionable actions, she ends up in a sanatorium, where she engages in a bizarre duel of reciprocal manipulation with another patient.
Marie and Thilde, the protagonists of two other stories, are strong women who rebel against the pre-established patterns imposed on them by society, while two male outsiders, Pogg and Robinson, seek refuge and hope in a prison cell.
These stories reveal to a new generation Fallada's immense gifts and his intense battles with the dynamics of human relationships.
Hans Fallada
Hans Fallada, eigentlich Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen (* 21. Juli 1893 in Greifswald; † 5. Februar 1947 in Berlin) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller. Bereits mit dem ersten, 1920 veröffentlichten Roman Der junge Goedeschal verwendete Rudolf Ditzen das Pseudonym Hans Fallada. Es entstand in Anlehnung an zwei Märchen der Brüder Grimm. Der Vorname bezieht sich auf den Protagonisten von Hans im Glück und der Nachname auf das sprechende Pferd Falada aus Die Gänsemagd: Der abgeschlagene Kopf des Pferdes verkündet so lange die Wahrheit, bis die betrogene Prinzessin zu ihrem Recht kommt. Fallada wandte sich spätestens 1931 mit Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben gesellschaftskritischen Themen zu. Fortan prägten ein objektiv-nüchterner Stil, anschauliche Milieustudien und eine überzeugende Charakterzeichnung seine Werke. Der Welterfolg Kleiner Mann – was nun?, der vom sozialen Abstieg eines Angestellten am Ende der Weimarer Republik handelt, sowie die späteren Werke Wolf unter Wölfen, Jeder stirbt für sich allein und der postum erschienene Roman Der Trinker werden der sogenannten Neuen Sachlichkeit zugerechnet. (Wikipedia)
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