King, Queen, Knave
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780070457225 (0070457220)
Publish date: August 1st 1980
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
Pages no: 288
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...