2245 - Rinser, Luise.

Rinser, Luise. Daniela. No. Novel manuscript, dated on margins between March and September (19)52 (the first leaf marked "Neu 1. Mai 52"). 4°. 472 hs. num. P. a. hs. num. pp. 204-241 (= 7th and 8th chapters of part 2, probably in an older version). Green manuscript on 5 (spurious) bindings with title in red. Complete manuscript of the novel about "a young teacher who wants to help the people in a remote moorland village. She has left her fiancé, her parental home and bourgeois prosperity for the sake of a task in which she, like her predecessors, fails..." (blurb of the paperback edition published by Fischer Taschenbuchverlag in 1978). - This manuscript, with numerous deletions, changes and reformulations throughout, illustrates the poet's struggle with the text. Luise Rinser (1911-2002) is considered the grande dame of German post-war literature and one of the most important writers of her time. - Written manuscript by Luise Rinser. 472 numbered pages. Contemporary green half leather. With numerous marginalia. R