Millen Brand Bücher
Millen Brand war ein Romanautor und Dichter, dessen Werke besonders Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts Bekanntheit erlangten. Seine Romane befassten sich mit sensiblen Themen wie Anstalten für psychisch Kranke und erzielten beachtliche Erfolge. Brand's Herangehensweise ans Schreiben war geprägt von tiefem Einblick in die menschliche Psyche und soziale Fragen. Sein literarisches Erbe liegt in der mutigen Auseinandersetzung mit oft übersehenen gesellschaftlichen Themen, dargeboten in einem poetischen Stil, der den Leser in das Innenleben seiner Charaktere zieht.
Outward Room
- 240 Seiten
- 9 Lesestunden
The Outward Room is a rediscovered classic of American literature, a book about a young woman’s journey from madness to self-discovery that is as immediate and moving today as when it first appeared in 1937. Having suffered a nervous breakdown after her younger brother’s death in a car accident, Harriet Demuth has been committed to a mental hospital, where her doctor’s Freudian nostrums have done little to make her well. Convinced that she and she alone can refashion her life, Harriet makes a daring escape from the hospital—hopping a train by night and riding the rails into the vastness of New York City in the light of the rising sun. This is the 1930s, the midst of the Great Depression, and at first Harriet is lost among the city’s anonymous multitudes. She pawns her jewelry and is living an increasingly hand-to-mouth existence when she meets John, a machine-shop worker. Slowly Harriet begins to recover her sense of self; slowly she and John begin to fall in love. The story of that emerging love, told with the lyricism of Virginia Woolf and the realism of Theodore Dreiser, is the heart of Millen Brand’s remarkable book.
