Stranger in My Own Country - The 1944 Prison Diary - The 1944 Prison Diary

Informationen zum Autor Hans Fallada was born in Greifswald, Germany, on 21 July 1893 as Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen; he took his pen name from a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. He died from an overdose of morphine on 5 February 1947 in Berlin. Fallada was the author of many bestselling novels including Little Man - What Now? (1932), Wolf Among Wolves (1938) and Every Man Dies Alone (1947). Klappentext I lived the same life as everyone else, the life of ordinary people, the masses. Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, the German author Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National Socialist dictatorship, the time of inward emigration . Zusammenfassung I lived the same life as everyone else! the life of ordinary people! the masses. Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944! the German author Hans Fallada sums up his life under the National Socialist dictatorship! the time of inward emigration . Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction vi The 1944 Prison Diary 1 A despatch from the house of the dead. Afterword 219 The genesis of the Prison Diary manuscript 233 Chronology 236 Notes 239 Index 268

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• Authors: H Fallada, H. Fallada, Hans Fallada
• Assisted by: Allan Blunden (Translation), Blunden Allan (Translation)
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.09.2016
• EAN: 9780745669892
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-6989-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, german, Autobiography: literary, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Autobiography: writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form, Germany; Nazi regime; danger; author