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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 · Publish with us. Policies and ethics. The fourth of Wells’s important extramarital affairs was with the brilliant but fissile Keun; this chapter covers it and discusses in detail the novels he wrote about her and out of his time with her: The World of William Clissold (1926); Meanwhile: The Picture...
6 de set. de 2019 · Odette Keun Versus H. G. Wells on Russia; By Galya Diment, University of Washington, Seattle. Edited by Galya Diment; Book: H. G. Wells and All Things Russian; Online publication: 06 September 2019
The essayist Odette Keun accused fellow liberals in the 1930s of being 'spineless' in failing to meet the ideological challenges from Fascism and Communism.1 Of French birth and Dutch parentage, Keun, an avid traveller, was one of an international group of liberals preoccupied with world affairs and alarmed by the rise of totalitarian ideologies.
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
- F.J. Companjen
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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.
In a series of articles in Time and Tide (October 1934) which appeared under the title ‘H. G. Wells—The Player’, Odette Keun—who had been Wells’s close friend and companion for the previous decade—strongly criticised him for his alleged inconsistency and disingenuousness and asserted that Experiment in Autobiography, which was then ...
