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Odette Zoé Keun (10 September 1888 in Pera – 14 March 1978 in Worthing) was a Dutch socialist, journalist and writer, who traveled extensively in Europe, including the Caucasus and the early Soviet Union.
9 de nov. de 2019 · A young European admirer called Odette Keun sent Wells a book she had written, an account of her time in post-Revolutionary Russia called Sous Lenin. Keun, the half-Italian half-Dutch daughter of a diplomat had, at 36, led a peripatetic and defiantly unconventional life.
Odette Zoé Keun, née le 10 septembre 1888 à Pera (Empire ottoman) et morte en 1978 à Worthing (Royaume-Uni), est une journaliste et écrivaine et traductrice néerlandaise, de langue française et anglaise, ayant notamment voyagé dans le Caucase et l'Union soviétique.
6 de set. de 2019 · Twentytwo years his junior, Odette Keun was his fan long before they first saw each other, and she apparently even carried a copy of his Outline of History (1920) through her travels in the Caucasus and her imprisonment in Russia.
Keun was a socialist and, after the title of one of her earliest novels, une femme moderne. She considered the hymen 'a nonsense', and made the heroines of her novels pay for their own meals (p. 22). She also had very little time for the Bolsheviks and was emphatically not a fellow traveller.
Odette Keun: a critical socialist in Menshevic Georgia. / Companjen, F.J. In: Anthropological Forum, Vol. II, 8, 2015, p. 103-115. Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article › Academic › peer-review
Odette Keun (1888-1978) was a traveler, adventurer and author who wrote about her experiences in the Caucasus, the Soviet Union and the US. She was the mistress of H.G. Wells and a critic of fascism and statism.
