Jacqueline Harpman’s “I Who Didn’t Know Men”: Feminist Discovery

As cursed as social networks are on the one hand and as much as their excessive consumption fuels the desire to simply throw your cell phone in the trash can, on the other hand it is just as great that Tiktok or Instagram bring things to light that you would otherwise have missed. In this case: the novel “I, Who Didn’t Know Men” by the Belgian author Jacqueline Harpman. A novel published in 1995 and then somewhat overlooked. The fact that it is now being published in a new German translation by Klett-Cotta is also due to the noise on social media; Lecturers and program managers are of course aware of what is happening there.