Irmgard Keun’s ‘The Artificial Silk Girl’ limns of pre-war Berlin and is an account of the adventures of an archetypal material girl fashioned from the work of Anita Loos in ‘Gentlemen Prefer Blondes’. The novel was published in 1932 and soon banned by Nazis and Keun was forced to flee from Germany. With the advent of the Second Wave Feminist Movement in Germany in order to combat the gender disparities in post-war country, several works by women writers including The Artificial Silk Girl were rediscovered.

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