The End of Days by Erpenbeck Jenny

Author:Erpenbeck, Jenny [Erpenbeck, Jenny]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, azw3, epub
Publisher: New Directions
Published: 2014-11-10T16:00:00+00:00

Never would she possess the same level of freedom as her husband, who was free for all time, doubly free — and in principle free even now that he was in prison, since he’d completed an apprenticeship as a metalworker before beginning to write, he’d been a laborer, a doubly free laborer; in other words: possessing nothing that could tie him down, he could go anywhere he wanted. From a societal perspective, he was immune to blackmail. The working class has nothing to lose but their chains. But did she herself really have more to lose? Had she perhaps inherited not only the myopia but also the fearfulness of her father, who all his life was obliged to worry that some trifling offense might prevent him from rising on schedule from one pay grade to the next and in the worst-case scenario — a revolution, say — even cause him to lose his position? Were hands by nature more honest than heads? As a young girl, how she would have loved to work with her hands, creating something that hadn’t previously existed — but ever since that day at school when a crafts teacher had held up the doll’s dress she had made, presenting it for the entire class to see as an example of what she called shoddy and sloppy work, since this day at school she had lost her faith in the work of her hands. If there were such a thing as being born to grace, there was probably also a gracelessness you could be born to. Sloppy and shoddy. She had later made the workers’ struggle her own all the more fervently.

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