Dimensions of Storytelling in German Literature and Beyond: For Once, Telling It All from the Beginning

Explores the storytelling of Anna Seghers and other 20th-century writers who faced the tensions between aesthetics and politically conscious writing, between conformity and resistance.

While Walter Benjamin, in his famous essay The Storyteller (1936), lamented the decline of the storytelling tradition in the age of the modernist novel, Anna Seghers and other twentieth-century German writers went on to chronicle the century's darkest days...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640140409
• ISBN13: 9781640140400
• Release Date: December 2018
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.1" x 6.0"