by Hans Fallada · EMBOLSILLO · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788416087204
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«El hombre que quería llegar lejos» is the novel by Hans Fallada, published by Embolsillo in paperback (768 pages, in Spanish).
In 1909, after the death of his father, Karl Siebrecht leaves his village to seek his fortune in Berlin. There, the outspoken Rieke Busch and the loyal Kalli Flau help him set up a luggage transport service between Berlin's railway stations. The First World War thwarts his project, but Karl persists in his ambition to achieve success.
Published on 24 September 2015; the work's subtitle is «El gran sueño de un hombre. Las mujeres de su vida y el precio del dinero».
For readers of classic fiction and stories set in early 20th-century Berlin.
Hans Fallada was a German writer of the first half of the 20th century. Some of his better known novels include Little Man, What Now? (1932) and Every Man Dies Alone (1947). His works belong predominantly to the New Objectivity literary style, a style associated with an emotionless reportage approach, with precision of detail, and a veneration for 'the fact'. Fallada's pseudonym derives from a combination of characters found in Grimms' Fairy Tales: The titular protagonist of Hans in Luck, and Fallada the magical talking horse in The Goose Girl.
