Lilly and Her Slave
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Lilly and Her Slave
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Narrated by:
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Christine Rendel
About this listen
It was the turning point before he became a bestselling author: Hans Fallada handed himself in to the police in September 1925, following repeated cases of embezzlement to finance his alcohol and morphine addiction.
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 It is an extraordinary find, because it includes unpublished and rewritten stories by Fallada that focus on hitherto taboo topics such as abortion.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.
©2021 Aufbau Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin; Translation copyright 2022 by Alexandra Roesch (P)2023 Tantor