by Stefan Heym · Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783596253319
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«Ahasver» is the novel by Stefan Heym, published by Fischer (Tb.), Frankfurt, in paperback (243 pages, in German).
The novel reinterprets the legend of the Wandering Jew, condemned to roam without rest for denying Christ a pause on the way to Calvary. Heym turns him into a fallen angel and combines the mythological tale with the life of reformer Paul von Eitzen and a correspondence between an East German scientist and an Israeli colleague.
The novel originally appeared in 1981; this edition is from 2000. It belongs to the Stefan-Heym-Werkausgabe series, Romane, as volume 12.
It is aimed at readers of historical fiction and German literature seeking a mythical and philosophical reinterpretation of a classic legend.
Helmut Flieg was a German writer, known by his pseudonym Stefan Heym. He lived in the United States and trained at Camp Ritchie in 1943, making him one of the Ritchie Boys of World War II. In 1952, he returned to his home to the part of his native Germany which was, from 1949 to 1990, the German Democratic Republic, or East Germany. He published works in English and German at home and abroad, and despite longstanding criticism of the GDR remained a committed socialist. He was awarded the 1953 Heinrich Mann Prize, the 1959 National Prize of East Germany, and the 1993 Jerusalem Prize.
