by Alfred Andersch · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788422632108
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«El padre de un asesino» is the novel by Alfred Andersch, published in 1990 by Círculo de Lectores in paperback (100 pages, in Spanish).
In a Munich secondary school in the 1920s, during a Greek class, the headmaster Himmler enters the classroom and ends up imposing a cruel interrogation on the students. The story, autobiographical in basis, is set before Nazism and reflects on the human condition and destiny through the figure of the father of the future Nazi leader.
Published in the Onda Joven collection, with a translation by M.ª Ángeles Grau. Original title: Der Vater eines Mörders. Eine Schulgeschichte.
Aimed at readers of fiction, especially those interested in German literature and the context preceding Nazism.
Alfred Hellmuth Andersch was a German writer, publisher, and radio editor. The son of a conservative East Prussian army officer, he was born in Munich, Germany, and died in Berzona, Ticino, Switzerland. Martin Andersch, his brother, was also a writer.
