| German Autumn Contributor(s): Dagerman, Stig (Author), Kurlansky, Mark (Foreword by), Fulton MacPherson, Robin (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0816677522 ISBN-13: 9780816677528 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | European - Scandinavian |
| Dewey: 839.787 |
| LCCN: 2011030476 |
| Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.40 lbs) 128 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Germany - Chronological Period - 1900-1949 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In late 1946, Stig Dagerman was assigned by the Swedish newspaper Expressen to report on life in Germany immediately after the fall of the Third Reich. First published in Sweden in 1947, German Autumn, a collection of the articles written for that assignment, was unlike any other reporting at the time. While most Allied and foreign journalists spun their writing on the widely held belief that the German people deserved their fate, Dagerman disagreed and reported on the humanness of the men and women ruined by the war--their guilt and suffering. Dagerman was already a prominent writer in Sweden, but the publication and broad reception of German Autumn throughout Europe established him as a compassionate journalist and led to the long-standing international influence of the book. Presented here in its first American edition with a compelling new foreword by Mark Kurlansky, Dagerman's essays on the tragic aftermath of war, suffering, and guilt are as hauntingly relevant today amid current global conflict as they were sixty years ago. |