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100	1		_aFallada, Hans, 1893-1947.
245	1	4	_a A stranger in my own country : _bthe 1944 prison diary _c/ Hans Fallada ; edited by Jenny Williams and Sabine Lange
260			_aCambridge, UK _b: Polity Press _c, 2014
300			_a274 p. _c; 21 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505	0	0	_aIntroduction -- The 1944 Prison Diary -- A despatch from the house of the dead. Afterword -- The genesis of the Prison Diary manuscript -- Chronology.
520			_aSitting 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.
546			_aTranslated from the German to English.
600	1	4	_aFallada, Hans _d(1893-1947) _v--Diaries
650		4	_aAuthors, German _y-20th century _v--Diaries
650		4	_aAuthors, German _y-20th century _v--Biography
650		4	_aPrisons _z-Germany _z-Neustrelitz _x-History _y-20th century
700	1		_aBlunden, Allan
942			_cMO
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