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Article: Barbara Frischmuth. Die Entschlusselung.(Brief Article)
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- World Literature Today
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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Berlin. Aufbau. 2001. 195 pages 16.50 [euro], ISBN 3-351-02927-6
A RIDDLE LIES at the heart of Barbara Frischmuth's latest novel. It all begins when, one fine summer day in the Salzkammergut region of the Austrian Alps, the narrator, a female novelist who resembles Frischmuth herself, stumbles upon a bundle of old papers. What looks like just a heap of blank pages at first might contain the correspondence between a local abbess and a Turkish poet from the fourteenth century, and is regarded as a treasure by several mysterious people who, one after the other, turn up at the narrator's home in Altaussee, among them two professors of women's studies from the United ...