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Author: Fallada, Hans
ISBN: 9780745669885

by Hans Fallada; Allan Blunden (Translator)

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From the publisher

"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". 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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Title A Stranger in My Own Country: The 1944 Prison Diary
Author Hans Fallada; Allan Blunden (Translator)
Binding Hardback
Edition First Edition
Pages 300
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Polity Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Publication date 2015
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9780745669885 / 0745669883
Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 1 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 2.54 cm)
Themes
- Aspects (Academic): Historical
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Germany
Category Biography / Autobiography
Library of Congress subjects Authors, German - 20th century, Fallada, Hans
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2014019994
Dewey Decimal Code B

About the author

Hans Fallada was born in Greifswald, Germany, on 21 July 1893 as Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen; he took his pen name from a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. He died of heart failure brought on by the cumulative effects of mental and physical exhaustion 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 Alone in Berlin (1947)

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