King, Queen, Knave
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780070457164 (0070457166)
Publish date: June 1st 1968
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Pages no: 272
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...