... Klaus Schlesinger's 1975 novel Old Movies [Alte Filme], Kotte spends his evenings with his wife, watching old German movies on television. Sometimes, an elderly neighbor joins them. During one silent film, she reveals that she is (or was) the young actress on screen, dancing to unheard music, lifting a transparent veil, revealing a sparsely clad body and a pure, beautiful face.2 Haunted by this transient beauty, by cinema's ability ...
Tópico(s): Italian Fascism and Post-war Society
2001 - Duke University Press | New German Critique