The Drinker

Name: The Drinker
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Written in an encrypted notebook while incarcerated in a Nazi insane asylum and only discovered after his death, The Drinker may be Hans Fallada's most breathtaking piece of craftsmanship. It is an intense yet absorbing study of the descent into drunkenness by an intelligent man who fears he's lost it all.

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Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

29. März 2011

Sprache

englisch

Seitenanzahl

320

Dateigröße

2,74 MB

Autor/Autorin

Hans Fallada

Übersetzung

Charlotte Lloyd, A. L. Lloyd

Verlag/Hersteller

Melville House

Kopierschutz

mit Adobe-DRM-Kopierschutz

Family Sharing

Produktart

EBOOK

Dateiformat

EPUB

ISBN

9781612190655

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Portrait

Hans Fallada

Before WWII , German writer Hans Fallada's novels were international bestsellers, on a par with those of his countrymen Thomas Mann and Herman Hesse. In America, Hollywood even turned his first big novel, Little Man, What Now? , into a major motion picture.

Learning the movie was made by a Jewish producer, however, Hitler decreed Fallada's work could no longer be sold outside Germany, and the rising Nazis began to pay him closer attention. When he refused to join the Nazi party he was arrested by the Gestapo-who eventually released him, but thereafter regularly summoned him for "discussions" of his work.

However, unlike Mann, Hesse, and others, Fallada refused to flee to safety, even when his British publisher, George Putnam, sent a private boat to rescue him. The pressure took its toll on Fallada, and he resorted increasingly to drugs and alcohol for relief. After Goebbels ordered him to write an anti-Semitic novel, he snapped and found himself imprisoned in an asylum for the "criminally insane"-considered a death sentence under Nazi rule. To forestall the inevitable, he pretended to write the assignment for Goebbels, while actually composing three encrypted books-including his tour-de-force novel The Drinker-in such dense code that they were not deciphered until long after his death.

Fallada outlasted the Reich and was freed at war's end. But he was a shattered man. To help him recover by putting him to work, Fallada's publisher gave him the Gestapo file of a simple, working-class couple who had resisted the Nazis. Inspired, Fallada completed Every Man Dies Alone in just twenty-four days.

He died on February 5, 1947, just weeks before the book's publication.

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