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Am I a redundant human being? / Mela Hartwig ; translated by Kerri A. Pierce.
- Title
- Am I a redundant human being? / Mela Hartwig ; translated by Kerri A. Pierce.
- Author
- Hartwig, Mela
- Publication
- Champaign [Ill.] : Dalkey Archive Press, 2010.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Pierce, Kerri A.
- Description
- 151 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Aloisia Schmidt is an ordinary secretary with a burning question: am I a redundant human being? She's neither pretty nor ugly (though she wishes she were hideous: at least that would be something), has no imagination, and is forced to live vicariously through fantasy that is borrowed from books, plays, even other people's lives. She loves to hate herself, and loves for other people to hate her. too. In one final, guilt-ridden, masturbatory, self-obsessed confession, Aloisia indulges her masochistic tendencies to the fullest, putting her entire life on trial, and trying, through telling her story, to transform an ordinary life into something extraordinary.
- Uniform Title
- Bin ich ein überflüssiger Mensch? English
- Alternative Title
- Bin ich ein überflüssiger Mensch?
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction
- Belletristische Darstellung.
- Fiction
- Note
- Translated from German.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9781564785817 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- 1564785815 (pbk. : acid-free paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010004421
- OCLC
- 464580080
- SCSB-11900630
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library