The Guesthouse at the Sign of the Teetering Globe by Franziska zu Reventlow and James J. Conway (tr).
My rating: four stars
Franziska zu Reventlow isn’t anyone I’d heard of before, but she certainly had a life. Born into German nobility, she believed the abolition of marriage (and embrace of sexual freedom) were key to women becoming equal to men. She was known for kicking on in Munich’s Schwabing entertainment district, for hanging out with Rilke, and for philosophical jousting with an intellectual circle brought together by appreciation of Ibsen and for freaking out the squares.
(And, later, their embrace of, er, antisemitism.)
She also was a translator, and wrote stories. Several of them are collected in Rixdorf’s presentation of The Guesthouse at the Sign of the Teetering Globe, which originally appeared in 1917.
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