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Anyone read this one?

Posted by MimzyBorogrove on 2009-January-04 02:49:06 EST, Sunday
In reply to Speaking of Otto and Anne posted by d on 2009-January-03 16:03:18 EST, Saturday

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I loved the diary of Anne Frank. Reading that work when I was about the same age as its author made the whole war real for me. I also enjoyed Mister God, this is Anna (recently discussed here) as well as this one which I haven't seen discussed. It's a diary of an 11 year-old girl growing up in Germany late 19th early 20th centuries. I've quoted below from the preface which was written by Sigmund Freud.


"This diary is a gem. Never before, I believe, has anything been written enabling us to see so clearly into the soul of a young girl, belonging to our social and cultural stratum, during the years of puberal development. We are shown how the sentiments pass from the simple egoism of childhood to attain maturity; how the relationships to parents and other members of the family first shape themselves, and how they gradually become more serious and more intimate; how friendships are formed and broken. We are shown the dawn of love, feeling out towards its first objects. Above all, we are shown how the mystery of the sexual life first presses itself vaguely on the attention, and then takes entire possession of the growing intelligence, so that the child suffers under the load of secret knowledge but gradually becomes enabled to shoulder the burden. Of all these things we have a description at once so charming, so serious, and so artless, that it cannot fail to be of supreme interest to educationists and psychologists."

It's quite a tale and I couldn't stop reading it.


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