ABSTRACT

gether in the real world. She has found her example in Goethe's re-interpretation of the Pandora myth, where Pandora is the preserver of hope and symbol of humankind's ability to love instead of hate. Amanda thus offers a projection into a possible future. Morgner called it "only the first half of the victory" and promised, in her closing words in the book, to supply the rest in the yet-unnamed third volume of her Beatriz/Laura trilogy