Fabian (European Classics) - Softcover

Erich Kastner

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810111373 ISBN 13: 9780810111370

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1993

Synopsis

Originally published in German in 1931 and in an expurgated English translation in 1932, this novel is the tale of Jacob Fabian, a Berlin advertising copywriter doomed in the context of economic, ethical, and political collapse by his characteristic mixture of detachment and decency. Fabian is a middle-of-the-road liberal, an Enlightenment rationalist, a believer that the public condition reflects prevailing private moralities, and a skeptic toward all ideological nostrums. Richly detailed and vividly plotted, Fabian remains an unparalleled personalization of the collapse of the Weimar Republic. This new edition restores the deleted sections considered too explicit for the original publication. It also includes Kastner's epilogue, which had been rejected by the original publisher, the preface added by the author to the 1952 German reissue, and an informative foreword by the scholar Rodney Livingstone.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0810111373
• ISBN 13: 9780810111370
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 177