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Shedding Author(s): Verena Stefan, Johanna Moore and Beth Weckmueller Source: New German Critique, No. 13, Special Feminist Issue (Winter, 1978), pp. 133-152 As any fledgling novelist soon learns, the odds against a first work as well as popular acclaim becoming a bestseller worthy of critical attention are astronomical at best. And if the book is brought out by an unknown publishing house whose meager budget precludes any promotional fanfare whatsoever, the likelihood of such success becomes miniscule indeed. Yet Verena Stefan's Hiutungen (Shedding), the book from which the following excerpt was taken, enjoyed just such a reception upon publication in 1975 by FRA UENOFFENSIVE, a small, West German feminist publisher. Despite the total absence of commercial publicity and a small first printing run, more than 135,000 copies of this slim volume - a highly autobiographical, innovative blend of prose and poetry - had been sold by the end linguistically 1977. Such popularity, especially in conjunction with the wide critical of attention paid Hiiutungen by the bourgeois as well as the left and feminist in the book was not limited to any small, press, makes it appare

Published

2011

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EN