Author : Monika Maron
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803282551
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (825 download)
Book Synopsis Animal Triste by : Monika Maron
Download or read book Animal Triste written by Monika Maron and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an autumnal love story of erotic obsession, possessiveness, remembrance, oblivion, and time, an elderly woman dwells upon a failed love affair of some time past, when she was no longer young but not yet old. The narrator relives meeting her lover, Franz, at the natural history museum, when, for the first time in her life, she experiences all-consuming love and absolute happiness. Ultimately the affair founders because of her inability to believe that Franz will actually leave his wife. After he disappears from her life, she withdraws from the world, waiting for his return and revisiting their time together over and over in a never-ending cycle of obsession. Her love for Franz becomes a compulsive suffering from which she can neither free herself nor withhold anything.