Ilse

Under the pseudonym of Ossit Madeleine -Deslandes (1866-1929) wrote Ilse her second novel which first appeared in 1894. Like a fable or a long poem in prose it tells the story of a young and charming woman of Bamberg who seems to at least partially exist in the land of fairies and flowers-but men and fate are less kind.A minor masterpiece a mystical idyll Ilse framed in green hills and light blue skies strewn with swallows is as much a drowsy dream as it is a book.