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Strange Currency, Faulty Love: A Review of Irmgard Keun’s Gilgi --- Adam Segal | Numéro Cinq
This, then, is the real horror of love: not that it weakens our resolve or compels us to compromise our individual interests and ideals, but that it forces us to reconsider the commonplace notion that we are firm, consistent entities. The concept of a singular Gilgi, a young woman who is the same from day to day, or even from moment to moment, is revealed to be an illusion.