Эрни. Мнения одной моралистки: роман

Berlin. Nachalo 1930-kh, zakat Veĭmarskoĭ respubliki. Nemet͡skai͡a stolit͡sa zhivët shumnoĭ, i͡arkoĭ, dinamichnoĭ zhiznʹi͡u, porazhai͡a mir tekhnicheskimi i kulʹturnymi novshestvami. No skoro vsë izmenitsi͡a… V romane predstaët Berlin literaturnyĭ i kriminalʹnyĭ; modnye bary, gde zvuchit dzhaz, i "zhilye kazarmy", iz okon kotorykh donositsi͡a branʹ; mnogokrasochnostʹ univermagov i best͡svetnoe, bespravnoe sushchestvovanie tekh, komu po karmanu tolʹko glazetʹ na vitriny; svobodnai͡a li͡ubovʹ i zhestokoe obrashchenie s sirotami; borʹba zhenshchin za svoi prava i narastai͡ushchie fashistskie nastroenii͡a - vsë ėto opredeli͡aet si͡uzhetnye kollizii i proi͡avli͡aet kharakter Ėrni i eë druzeĭ. Oni rabotai͡ut, poseshchai͡ut teatry, kino i kabare, chitai͡ut gazety i zhurnaly, vli͡ubli͡ai͡utsi͡a i teri͡ai͡ut li͡ubimykh. Iz posledneĭ glavy, perenosi͡ashcheĭ nas v 1948 god, my uznaëm, poshchadila li geroev voĭna. V posleslovii perevodchika raskryty alli͡uzii na maloizvestnye v Rossii proizvedenii͡a nemet͡skoĭ literatury KhKh v., kommentarii dopolni͡ai͡ut kartinu ukazaniem na realʹnye mesta deĭstvii͡a. Anna Kholʹt͡sfogt - molodai͡a nemet͡skai͡a pisatelʹnit͡sa, doverivshai͡a nam svoĭ debi͡utnyĭ roman, eshchë ne izdannyĭ v Germanii.

Berlin. Early 1930s, the decline of the Weimar Republic. The German capital lives a noisy, vibrant, dynamic life, impressing the world with technical and cultural innovations. But everything will change soon.… The novel depicts literary and criminal Berlin; trendy bars where jazz is played, and "residential barracks" from whose windows swearing can be heard; the multicolored department stores and the colorless, disenfranchised existence of those who can only afford to stare at shop windows; free love and the abuse of orphans; the struggle of women for their rights and the growing fascist moods - all this determines the plot collisions and reveals the character of Ernie and her friends. They work, visit theaters, cinemas and cabarets, read newspapers and magazines, fall in love and lose loved ones. From the last chapter, which takes us back to 1948, we find out if the war spared the heroes. The translator's afterword reveals allusions to little-known works of twentieth-century German literature in Russia, and the comments complement the picture with references to the real scene. Anna Holzvogt is a young German writer who entrusted us with her debut novel, which has not yet been published in Germany.