King, Queen, Knave (Penguin Modern Classics)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B0071MZF3C
Publish date: March 1st 2012
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 292
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Novels,
Academic,
Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
20th Century,
Family,
College,
Russia,
Russian Literature,
Germany
The deliberate flattening of the characters in King, Queen, Knave undermines the credibility of the book's love triangle as if the text was, reflexively, mocking its own form.Martha, a brittle ice-queen who lives in an austere villa in Berlin, does not love her husband, Dreyer, and seems incapable o...
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