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A stranger in my own country : the 1944 prison diary / Hans Fallada ; edited by Jenny Williams and Sabine Lange

By:

Fallada, Hans, 1893-1947

Contributor(s):

Blunden, Allan

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK : Polity Press , 2014Description: 274 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

9780745669892

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

92 FAL

Contents:

Summary: 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". Under conditions of close confinement, in constant fear of discovery, he writes himself free from the nightmare of the Nazi years. He records his thoughts about spying and denunciation, about the threat to his livelihood and his literary work and about the fate of many friends and contemporaries. The confessional mode did not come naturally to Fallada, but in the mental and emotional distress of 1944, self-reflection became a survival strategy. Fallada's frank and sometimes provocative memoirs were thought for many years to have been lost. They are published here for the first time.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	92 FAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		056433

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction -- The 1944 Prison Diary -- A despatch from the house of the dead. Afterword -- The genesis of the Prison Diary manuscript -- Chronology.

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". Under conditions of close confinement, in constant fear of discovery, he writes himself free from the nightmare of the Nazi years. He records his thoughts about spying and denunciation, about the threat to his livelihood and his literary work and about the fate of many friends and contemporaries. The confessional mode did not come naturally to Fallada, but in the mental and emotional distress of 1944, self-reflection became a survival strategy. Fallada's frank and sometimes provocative memoirs were thought for many years to have been lost. They are published here for the first time.

Translated from the German to English.

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