{"id":7694,"date":"2013-10-25T13:23:45","date_gmt":"2013-10-25T17:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/?p=7694"},"modified":"2013-10-25T13:23:45","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T17:23:45","slug":"material-madchen-i-read-the-artificial-silk-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/evetushnet\/2013\/10\/material-madchen-i-read-the-artificial-silk-girl.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Material Madchen&#8221;: I read &#8220;The Artificial Silk Girl&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>at AmCon:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I picked up Irmgard Keun\u2019s 1932 novel <em>The Artificial Silk Girl<\/em> at the Neue Galerie in New York, basically on a whim. It promised to be a dizzying tour of Weimar Berlin, last call before Hell and all that, from the perspective of a young, single woman whom the introduction compares to Madonna\u2019s \u201cMaterial Girl.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Certainly our heroine, Doris, is materialistic in a certain sense. She pays her bills by dating men. Her closest relationship is with her stolen fur coat. (The letter she writes to the coat\u2019s rightful owner is a terrific, tilt-a-whirl study in ambivalent amends.) But she isn\u2019t hard-headed; her desires are a collage of sentiment and hunger. She maintains her girlish figure easily, since throughout most of the novel she can\u2019t actually afford food.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/material-madchen-the-artificial-silk-girl\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">more<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>at AmCon: I picked up Irmgard Keun\u2019s 1932 novel The Artificial Silk Girl at the Neue Galerie in New York, basically on a whim. 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