![]() Lottie is brought up by her hard-working mother. She is spoiled, naughty, daring and aggressive. When the parents divorced, each kept one of the girls. The plot is captivating and highly original: two nine-year-old identical twin girls, Lottie and Lisa, were separated at infancy. Das doppelte Lottchen was published in 1949, immediately becoming a best seller. He remained in Germany during the war, writing apolitical books under a pseudonym. He began writing Lottie and Lisa ( Das doppelte Lottchen (“The double Lottie”), the film The Parent Trap was an adaptation of the book), in 1942, concluding it in 1949. The German writer Erich Kästner (1899-1974) was a pacifist and an anti-Nazi. I feel that the way it deals with the various aspects of identity sparked my own interest in the ‘self’. For me, Erich Kästners’ Lisa and Lottie is such a book. The best ones implant an idea in the child’s mind, which then evolves and deepens over the years, long after the book was read. ![]() Perhaps it has to do with them articulating life’s most fundamental questions in a clear and vivid way. ![]()
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