Heinrich Mann's most famous and most successful novel – in an expanded new edition with an extensive appendix containing pictures and other material
'Over the past week, I had great fun re-reading The Loyal Subject: a book that is not only quite extraordinary in literary terms but a totally horrifyingly prophetic work,' Klaus Mann wrote in exile in Amsterdam in February 1936, three years after Hitler's "seizure of power". Today, Heinrich Mann's novel still invites such reading and re-reading. What remains horrifying to this day is that (male) 'craving to command and obey', which Kurt Tucholsky pointed to in his legendary review in the Weltbühne already in 1919. Nevertheless, or perhaps precisely for this reason, this social novel of the 20th century is not only a great reading pleasure for a Nazi opponent like Klaus Mann.
With an extensive appendix containing pictures and other material, including numerous newly discovered, and previously unpublished, documents on the book's origins and reception.
