Word: fallada
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hans Fallada (Little Man, What Now?), though not a Nazi, is still popular in Germany. But his Iron Gustav has been quietly blacklisted. Joseph Ponten's seven-volume historical novel will trace the emigrations of German minorities abroad, especially in Russia. Edwin Erich Dwinger's The Last Horsemen describes the futile attempt of a gang of German frontier soldiers to invade Courland and make it a German province...
...thing Michael proves is that Goebbels was a worse novelist than Hitler was a painter. It also reveals why Goebbels takes so much interest in Nazi novels. A few established novelists, like Hans Fallada, whose Wolf Among Wolves (Putnam, $3) was published last month, avoid such mystical propaganda. But Goebbels eggs on young writers (more than 100 new authors have popped up in the last five years), while older ones like Fallada go on writing just as they did before Germany's least talented author became the director of her literary life...
...HEART GOES A-JOURNEYING- Hans Fallada-Simon & Schuster ($2.50). A whimsical folktale by the author of Little Man, What Now? relating how a lovable but erratic old professor rescues his angelic god-daughter from a villain of purest German...
ONCE WE HAD A CHILD-Hans Fallada -Simon & Schuster...
...Shopgirl readers who were melted to delicious tears by Hans Fallada's mannikin novel of the depression, Little Man, What Now?, found his next book, The World Outside, much less to their liking. Last week they opened Once We Had a Child with mingled feelings of alarm. Their feelings were justified for Once We Had a Child is a tragedy of sombre hue. But it is a lengthy book (631 pp.) and long before the shades begin to close in, light-minded readers could find all that they were looking for in the way of hearty anecdote, curmudgeonly character...