Johanna

In 1412, a farmer’s daughter is born in Domrémy in Lorraine. Not twenty years later, she is burned as a heretic. But Felicitas Hoppe’s “Joan” is not a book about Joan of Arc. This book is Joan herself, the story of our rebellion and our own insatiable longings.How do you deal with a figure everyone thinks they know, and about whom everything seems to have long been said in the arts? In a time in which many tales are told but nothing is heard, Joan is still a provocation. This is a book that deals with how we make history, how we tell tales. Its answer to the events of history is the passion of literature, to the passion of Joan is a dialogue on our own angst. Felicitas Hoppe refrains from reconstructing Joan of Arc’s biography. Instead, she portrays with historical precision and poetic intensity a dream of reality – for what else are books compared to the world?