Early 20th-Century German Fiction: A. Dblin, L. Feuchtwanger, A. Seghers, A. Zweig
By (Author) Alexander Stephan
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
1st February 2003
United Kingdom
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
833.912
Paperback
320
370g
This collection of High Modernism among Austrian and German writers includes:--Pogrom and a selection from The Case of Sergeant Grischa by Arnold Zweig--"The Murder of a Buttercup" and a selection from Berlin Alexanderplatz (recently cited as one of the 100 Most Meaningful Books of All Time in a survey that was reported in The Guardian, and made into a landmark multipart television series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder) by Alfred Dblin--Selections from Jew Snss and The Oppermans by Lion Feuchtwanger--A selection from The Seventh Cross and "Excursion of the Dead Girls" by Anna Seghers
Alfred Doblin, born in Germany in 1878, was a physician and a prolific writer.