Animal Triste (novel)

Animal Triste, published in 1996, is a German-language novel by author Monika Maron, which took its name from a Latin phrase: "Triste est omne animal post coitum, præter mulierem gallumque." meaning "Every animal is sad after coitus except the human female and the rooster."

Animal Triste
AuthorMonika Maron
CountryGermany
LanguageGerman
GenreFiction
Publication date
1996

The novel is about a love affair between an anonymous female paleontologist from German Democratic Republic , the protagonist and the narrator, and a male hymenopterologist from Federal Republic of Germany in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The major themes of the novel are the identity crisis due to fundamental historical, political, and social changes after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the "symbolic representation of the difficulties of unitying the two German states", and the love and sexuality in old ages.[1][2][3][4][5]

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References
  1. Rinner, Susanne (July 2017). "Trapped in the Land of Liberty: Monika Maron's Animal Triste (1996)": 1-18. doi:10.15173/sj.v4i1.3253. Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  2. Hock, Lisbeth (1997). "Monika Maron: Animal triste". GDR Bulletin. 24. doi:10.4148/gdrb.v24i0.1234.
  3. Byrnes, D. (2011). Rereading Monika Maron : text, counter-text and context. Oxford : Lang.
  4. Cizmecioglu, Aygül (2008). "Monika Maron: 'Animal Triste'". Deutsche Welle.
  5. Lewis, Alison (December 1998). "Re-Membering the Barbarian: Memory and Repression in Monika Maron's Animal Triste". The German Quarterly. doi:10.2307/407514.
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