Responding to Wetlands: Helen Memel's Psychoanalysis - Erstausgabe

No book published in recent years has been discussed with as much controversy as Charlotte Roche's Wetlands, which sold millions of copies in the original German edition and its twenty-seven translations. Helen Memel, the eighteen-year-old protagonist of Wetlands, has no sense of shame or boundaries regarding repulsion as she breaks society's last taboos. In this fictional response to Wetlands, young psychoanalyst Marc man writes Helen Memel a letter about the effects of her report on readers and the causes of her personality disorder. After Helen and Marc begin talking on the telephone, the snotty teenager becomes interested in the reasons for her sex addiction and perversions. She ultimately accepts his offer of psychotherapy. - Charlotte Roche appears to be less than thrilled that this analysis of Wetland's protagonist will be published. Although she refused to give reprint permission for quotes from her novel about Helen Memel, this hasn't stopped Swiss author Bruno Barrett from responding to Wetlands with his own reflective interpretation. With its interplay of gravity and irony, Responding to Wetlands is contemporary mix of novel and non-fiction. It's the perfect companion to Wetlands or an interesting read on its own.