Description
This collection of High Modernism among Austrian and German writers includes:--Pogrom and a selection from The Case of Sergeant Grischa by Arnold Zweig--"The Murder of a Buttercup" and a selection from Berlin Alexanderplatz (recently cited as one of the 100 Most Meaningful Books of All Time in a survey that was reported in The Guardian, and made into a landmark multipart television series by Rainer Werner Fassbinder) by Alfred D÷blin--Selections from Jew Snss and The Oppermans by Lion Feuchtwanger--A selection from The Seventh Cross and "Excursion of the Dead Girls" by Anna Seghers
Table of Contents
Introduction: Alexander Stephan
Translated by Jan van Heurck
ARNOLD ZWEIG
Pogrom
From The Case of Sergeant Grischa
Translated by Eric Sutton
ALFRED DOBLIN
The Murder of a Buttercup
Translated by Patrick O'Neill
From Berlin Alexanderplatz
Translated by Eugene Jolas
LION FEUCHTWANGER
From Jew Suss
Translated by Willa Muir and Edwin Muir
From The Oppermanns
Translated by J. Cleugh
ANNA SEGHERS
From The Seventh Cross
Translated by James A. Galston
Excursion of the Dead Girls
Translated by Michael Bullock
The Authors