Karen duve’s dies ist kein liebeslied (This is not a love-song)

Abstract

Dies ist kein Liebeslied (This Is Not a Love-Song, 2000) is the second novel by Karen Duve, one of a number of women writers who are regularly associated with the phenomenon of the Literarisches Fräuleinwunder (literary girl wonder). More a product of journalism than self-description, the Fräuleinwunder craze was one of the literary ‘events’ that occurred at the end of the millennium when the German Feuilletons announced in hyperbolic style the ‘miraculous’ emergence of a new wave of women writers. Duve, along with the others mentioned in Volker Hage’s article in Der Spiegel on 22 March 1999 – Judith Hermann, Juli Zeh, Jenny Erpenbeck, Julia Franck, Felicitas Hoppe and Zoë Jenny – is often r..