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In search of an unknown woman

L'Inconnue de la Seine

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  1. Photographs of some famous death-masks, together with that of theInconnue, are reproduced in Ernst Benkard:Das ewige Antlitz, Berlin 1926 (English translation,Undying Faces, London 1929). Cf. too Laurence Hutton:A Collection of Death Masks, Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1892, pp. 619–631 and 781–793.

  2. Reproduced in Richard Whittington-Egan and Geoffrey Smerdon:The Quest of the Golden Boy — The Life and Letters of Richard Le Gallienne, London 1960, facing p. 384.

  3. In a footnote Le Gallienne writes, in cavalier fashion: “Of course, the writer is aware that while ‘ Silencieux’ is feminine, her name is masculine. In such fanciful names, however, such licence has always been considered allowable”. (The Worshipper of the Image, London 1900, p. 11).

  4. Whittington-Egan and Smerdon, op. cit. p. 399.

  5. Ibid. p. 363.

  6. Contained inL'enfant de la Haute Mer, Paris (Gallimard) 1973.

  7. Hertha Pauli:Der Riß der Zeit geht durch mein Herz. Ein Erlebnisbuch, Wien Hamburg 1970, p. 60.

  8. Ödön von Horváth:Gesammelte Werke, Vol. II (1970), Anmerkungen, pp. 3*-4*.

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  9. I owe this information to Hertha Pauli's husband, Mr. E. B. Ashton (letter of 19.8.75). Hertha Pauli died in 1972.

  10. Die Unbekannte aus der Seine andMit dem Kopf durch die Wand are contained in Ödön von Horváth:Gesammelte Werke. ed. Traugott Krischke and Dieter Hildebrandt, Vol. II (1970).

  11. Bastei-Verlag, 1973.

  12. Times Literary Supplement, 17 October 1935 (No. 1759, p. 653).

  13. L' Inconnue de la Seine, Lilliput Vol. 16, No. 4, April 1945.

  14. A. Alvarez:The Savage God, A Study of Suicide, London 1971. I am indebted to Mr. Alvarez for referring me to many of the sources of which I have made use in this article.

  15. Gallimard (Collection Folio) 1972. An English translation ofAurelien (by Eithne Wilkins) was published in April, 1946.

  16. The Worshipper of the Image, p. 13.

  17. Cf. the vogue for postcard portraits, particularly those published by J. Mandel, in Paris in the Twenties.

  18. A letter to the Prefecture de Police in Paris produced an unintentionally amusing reply regretting that no information on theInconnue is available in the archives: “J'ai l'honneur de vous faire savoir que parmi les dossiers de personnes décédees non identifiees aucun ne porte le titre d'Inconnue de la Seine. Il est permis de penser qu'il ne s'agit là que d'une legende”.

  19. Jacques Brenner:L'Inconnue de la Seine, Roman, Paris (Albin Michel) 1968.

  20. Mention should also be made of Claire Goll:L'Inconnue de la Seine (inLes Œuvres Nouvelles, N.Y. (Editions de la Maison Française) 1944) and Alfred K. J. Wiedemann:L'Inconnue de la Seine, Breslau 1933.

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Phillips, D. In search of an unknown woman. Neophilologus 66, 321–327 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01998976

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