by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor · AUTREMENT · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782746702806
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«Inconnu à cette adresse» is the epistolary novel by Kathrine Kressmann Taylor, published by Éditions Autrement in paperback (74 pages, in French).
It narrates through letters, between 1932 and 1934, the relationship of two business partners and close friends: Martin, a German who returns to his country, and Max, an American Jew who remains in California. The correspondence moves from friendship to estrangement when Martin embraces National Socialism, and political loyalty ends their bond.
Originally published in 1938 as «Address Unknown» in Story magazine, under the pseudonym Kressmann Taylor. This French anniversary edition was nominated for the Premi Llibreter for narrative in 2001.
For readers of historical fiction and fiction about the Second World War and the Holocaust; also common reading in school settings.
Kathrine Kressmann Taylor or Kressmann Taylor was an American writer, known mostly for her Address Unknown (1938), a short novel written as a series of letters between a Jewish art dealer, living in San Francisco, and his business partner, who had returned to Germany in 1932. It is credited with exposing, early on, the dangers of Nazism to the American public.
