by Jurek Becker · Hinstorff Verlag · tapa dura · ISBN 9783518067710
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«Irreführung der Behörden» is the novel by Jurek Becker, published by Hinstorff Verlag in hardback (249 pages, in German).
The novel explores the relationship between the individual and bureaucracy through a plot in which the protagonist's identity is called into question by the authorities. Jurek Becker thus places a personal story within a complex social context and examines how administrative mechanisms shape people's lives.
Originally published in 1973, the work won the Bremer Literaturpreis in 1974.
For readers of German fiction interested in novels about the individual versus institutions and the limits of bureaucracy.
Jurek Becker was a Polish-born German writer, screenwriter and East German dissident. His most famous novel is Jacob the Liar, which has been made into two films. He lived in Łódź during World War II for about two years and survived the Holocaust.
