Le figlie di Ecuba

In 1918 Clara Viebig publishes the novel Die Tochter der Hekuba. The book is set in a Berlin suburb in a period that spans two years of war until 1917. Through individual stories, the authoress creates a fresco of the living conditions of women, left alone by men who go to war as volunteers or are called to arms in the daily struggle for physical and spiritual survival. As the conflict dominates everything and breaks down social barriers, women are able to find a new solidarity and a common judgment. Thanks to a writing that comes close to realism and vivid interior monologues in which the various protagonists express their thoughts, Clara Viebig manifests a radical condemnation of the militarist madness and of those who promote it. The male world undermined by ideology is opposed to the female world that yearns for peace at any cost in order to resume a normal life, because "a mother can never lose."