by Hans Fallada · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070312962
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This novel, written in 1947, realistically and sincerely recounts the survival conditions of Berliners, Jewish or not, under the Third Reich. A masterpiece. The story focuses on the silent resistance of an ordinary couple against the Nazi regime in Berlin during World War II. After the loss of their son at the front, Otto and Anna Quangel begin a solitary campaign of defiance, distributing postcards with anti-Nazi messages throughout the city, risking their lives in an act of personal and desperate rebellion.
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.
