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The New Scheherazade.(criticism and interpretation of Lilian Faschinger's first novel)(Excerpt)
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- Women in German Yearbook
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The New Scheherazade (Die neue Scheherazade, Paul List Verlag, 1986) is Lilian Faschinger's first novel. As in the original Thousand and One Nights, Faschinger's narrator tells stories to escape death, if not literal death at the hands of a wrathful King Schahriar, then figurative death in the stifling existence of an Austrian wife. The novel, which Faschinger has called "my contribution to postmodernism," features her characteristic humor and treats many of the themes found in her later works: the latent fascism in Austrian society, the uses and misuses of psychoanalysis, and the role of the Catholic Church in the oppression of women, among others. The narrator, whose ...
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