A stranger in my own country : the 1944 prison diary
Hans Fallada (Author), Jenny Williams (Editor), Sabine Lange (Editor), Allan Blunden (Translator)
'I lived the same life as everyone else, the life ofordinary people, the masses.' Sitting in a prison cell in theautumn of 1944, Hans Fallada sums up his life under the NationalSocialist dictatorship, the time of 'inwardemigration'. Under conditions of close confinement, inconstant fear of discovery, he writes himself free from thenightmare of the Nazi years. His frank and sometimes provocativememoirs were thought for many years to have been lost. They arepublished here in English for the first time. The confessional mode did not come naturally to Fallada the writerof fiction, but in the men
eBook, English, 2015
Polity, Cambridge, England, 2015