Animal Triste (novel)
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| Author | Monika Maron |
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| Language | German |
| Genre | Fiction |
Publication date | 1996 |
| Publication place | Germany |
Animal Triste, published in 1996, is a German-language novel by author Monika Maron, which took its name from a Latin phrase: "Triste est omne animal post coitum, præter mulierem gallumque" meaning "Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster."
The novel is about a love affair between an anonymous female paleontologist from the German Democratic Republic, the protagonist and the narrator, and a male hymenopterologist from the Federal Republic of Germany in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The major themes of the novel are the identity crisis due to fundamental historical, political, and social changes after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the "symbolic representation of the difficulties of unitying the two German states", and the love and sexuality in old ages.[1][2][3][4][5]
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Rinner, Susanne (July 2017). "Trapped in the Land of Liberty: Monika Maron's Animal Triste (1996)". The Sophie Journal. 4: 1–18. doi:10.15173/sj.v4i1.3253.
- ^ Hock, Lisbeth (1997). "Monika Maron: Animal triste". GDR Bulletin. 24: 98–99. doi:10.4148/gdrb.v24i0.1234.
- ^ Byrnes, D. (2011). Rereading Monika Maron : text, counter-text and context. Oxford : Lang. ISBN 9783039114221.
- ^ Cizmecioglu, Aygül (2008). "Monika Maron: 'Animal Triste'". Deutsche Welle.
- ^ Lewis, Alison (December 1998). "Re-Membering the Barbarian: Memory and Repression in Monika Maron's Animal Triste". The German Quarterly. 71 (1): 30–46. doi:10.2307/407514. JSTOR 407514.