The fascinating journey of Jaqueline Scheiber: Fighting taboos!

The fascinating journey of Jaqueline Scheiber: Fighting taboos!

The Austrian author Jaqueline Scheiber, born in 1993 and known from the influencer world under the name @minusgold, has published her new book “Dreimeterdreißig”, a moving work that delves deeply into personal losses. The title refers to the old Viennese apartment in which the protagonists, a self-confident architect and a reserved theater technician, try to combine their lives. Loud vienna.at The book is seen as part of a mourning process that reminds us of the challenges that come with living in times of loss. Scheiber describes both the emotional and geographical hurdles that the protagonists have to overcome.

The author uses various linguistic and formal experiments in her narrative approach. She alternates between perspectives and time levels and plays with chapter headings to illustrate the passage of time and the emotions of the characters, often managing to keep the reader captivated. There are also emotionally shocking moments, such as the loss of a child by the protagonist's best friend. This is seen as an attempt to come to terms with the painful silence of life, which Scheiber aptly describes: a “kind of silence that one suspected everywhere else, but never in one's own life.” She is perceived as a voice that wants to break the taboo of loss in our society.

A look at the new edition

“Unbeautiful” is the updated new edition of Scheiber’s first book “Openness” and tells not only her personal story, but also that of many others. How jpc.de reports, Scheiber fills an important gap in today's society by speaking openly about false ideals of beauty, mental illness and emotional loss. This openness has sparked a kind of revolution in the book and social media world, encouraging many people to share and overcome their own challenges.