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Stranger in my own country : the prison diary, 1944

Fallada, Hans, 1893-19472014
Books, Manuscripts
Sitting in a prison cell in the autumn of 1944, 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. His frank and sometimes provocative memoirs were thought for many years to have been lost. They are published here for the first time. The confessional mode did not come naturally to Fallada the writer of fiction, but in the mental and emotional distress of 1944, self-reflection became a survival strategy.
Main title:
Stranger in my own country : the prison diary, 1944 / by Hans Fallada ;edited by Jenny Williams and Sabine Lange.
Author:
Imprint:
Cambridge : Polity, 2015.
Collation:
300 pages ; 21 cm
Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9780745669885 (hbk)0745669883
Dewey class:
833.9'12833.912
Local class:
833.912
Language:
EnglishGerman
BRN:
623330
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