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Erna, jeune fille de Berlin
1932
Ménalkas
Paris : Éditions Cosmopolite
French
Novel
254pp
Lesbians
Open Access
Summary
A utopian technological novel which champions free sex—this time explicitly including homosexuality into the belief. The protagonist studies and visits different environments, teaching herself and the reader about the symbiosis of differing sexualities, and eventually she enters a relationship with Billy, a woman.
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Written by Suzanne de Callias as Ménalkas.
Erna, A Young Girl from Berlin in English.
The novel is discussed at length with short translations in Lawrence R. Schehr's French Gay Modernism (2004).
Another source says that the book ends with Erna marrying a strictly conservative man who forces her to remain home (A History of Homosexuality in Europe by Florence Tamagne, 54p).
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