Details
592 Pages,
publishing house:
FISCHER Taschenbuch
publication date:
23.10.2013
ISBN 978-3-596-90470-9
Content
Heimkehr der Fronttruppen deals with the lost generation of soldiers returning from the war. In his desperation, the classicist Friedrich Becker finds a straw to cling to in Christianity. The dramatist Erwin Stauffer is still seeking happiness in love. And the Freikorps officer Johannes Maus introduces the character of a young former soldier, his struggle for an allegedly healthy Germany a portent of the time of National Socialism. Meanwhile, the German front troops are arriving in Berlin, and a peace conference is being prepared in Paris.
About Alfred Döblin
Alfred Döblin, born in Stettin in 1878, opened a medical practice in Berlin in 1911. Döblin’s first major novel was published by S. Fischer in 1915/16. His greatest success was the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, also S. Fischer, published in 1929. In 1933 Döblin emigrated to France and from there to the USA. After 1945 he initially returned to Germany but then moved to Paris with his family in 1953. Alfred Döblin died on 26 June 1957.
