Hans Fallada Livres

"Mai 1940, on fête à Berlin la campagne de France. La ferveur nazie est au plus haut. Derrière la façade triomphale du Reich se cache un monde de misère et de terreur. 'Seul dans Berlin' raconte le quotidien d'un immeuble modeste de la rue Jablonski, à Berlin. Persécuteurs et persécutés y cohabitent. C'est Mme Rosenthal, juive, dénoncée et pillée par ses voisins. C'est Baldur Persicke, jeune recrue des SS qui terrorise sa famille. Ce sont les Quangel, désespérés d'avoir perdu leur fils au front, qui inondent la ville de tracts contre Hitler et déjouent la Gestapo avant de connaître une terrifiante descente aux enfers. De 'Seul dans Berlin', Primo Levi disait, dans 'Conversations avec Ferdinando Camon', qu'il était 'l'un des plus beaux livres sur la résistance allemande antinazie'. Aucun roman n'a jamais décrit d'aussi près les conditions réelles de survie des citoyens allemands, juifs ou non, sous le IIIe Reich, avec un tel réalisme et une telle sincérité." [Source : 4e de couv., tirage 2012]

Intransigent, deeply conservative coachman Gustav Hackendahl rules his family with an iron rod, but in so doing loses his grip on the children he loves. Meanwhile, the First World War is destroying his career, his country, and his pride in the German people. As Germany and the Hackendahl family unravel, Gustav has to learn to compromise if he is to hold onto anything he holds dear.

From the bestselling author of Alone in Berlin, this acclaimed novel follows a young couple navigating life in 1930s Germany. Lämmchen and 'Boy' fall in love, marry, and start a family in Berlin in 1932, but their lives are overshadowed by the changing political landscape. As they struggle with bullying bosses, unpaid bills, monstrous mothers-in-law, and Nazi streetfighters, they question whether love can sustain them. This work, which established Hans Fallada as a significant writer, portrays one of literature's most touching couples, blending comedy with desperation. Published just before Hitler's rise to power, it hauntingly depicts innocents on the brink of losing everything. Michael Hofmann's brilliant new translation captures the era's austerity and turmoil in Weimar Germany. Critics have praised Fallada's genius, noting the emotional depth and variety in characterization. The narrative resonates with both despair and hope, reflecting the complexities of life during a pivotal moment in history. This novel remains a powerful exploration of ordinary people facing extraordinary challenges.

Drawing on Hans Fallada's own history of addiction, these two stories are written with a remarkable, tough, spartan clarity. As a man desperately, haplessly tries to get enough morphine to make it through the day and a drunk embezzler struggles to get himself arrested, they are at one second crushing, the next darkly comic.

Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in BerlinIn these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily struggles in marks and pfennigs; a convict makes a desperate leap from a moving train; a ring - and with it a marriage - is lost in a basket of potatoes.Here, as in his novels, Fallada is by turns tough, darkly funny, streetwise and effortlessly engaging, writing with acute feeling about ordinary lives shaped by forces larger than themselves: addiction, love, money.

Previously unpublished and rewritten stories by the acclaimed mid-century German author Hans Fallada have been uncovered nearly a century after his imprisonment. These newly found works offer fresh insights into his literary genius, showcasing his unique narrative style and themes that resonate with readers today.

Noveller. Tales of low-lifes, grifters and ordinary people trying to make ends meet in pre-war Germany

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