Am I a Redundant Human Being? Portugal the sorrow of death and

the sorrow of death and disaster

and the critic James Wood wrote

Three of the four books reprinted here are novels: Celestial Seraglio (1929)

a couple of suicides

" finds that she must "serve the gentlemen" instead

Am I a Redundant Human Being? Portugal the sorrow of death andFor the first time in English, a contemporary and friend of Virginia Woolf and Stefan Zweig gives us the definitive portrait of a woman lost on the margins of modern life. Aloisia Schmidt is an ordinary secretary with a burning question: am I a redundant human being? She's neither pretty nor ugly (though she wishes she were hideous: at least that would be something), has no imagination, and is forced to live vicariously through "borrowed"