Beyond Defeat. Translated by Robert Kee
Richter, Hans Werner, 1908-1993
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Add to basketdust-jacket torn and chipped around edges, cover price $3.00, very good brown cloth. RICHTER, HANS WERNER. Beyond Defeat. Translated by Robert Kee. New York: G. P. Putnam's sons, 1950, 312pp., . Translation of Die Geschlagenen. - An anti-Nazi German soldier becomes an American prisoner of war. - The son of a fisherman, Hans Werner Richter was born in 1908 at Bansin, on the Baltic. He was trained for the book business, but as a youth shipped out for a time as a sailor. When in 1927 he went to Berlin, he became a minor functionary of the German Communist party, from which he later withdrew to found an independent socialist movement. During the depression years he earned a meager living as street singer, chauffeur, and political speaker. After a year in exile in France, he returned to Germany, where after 1940 he was under continual observation by the Gestapo. Drafted into the army, he took part in the battle for Cassino, where he was captured by the Americans in 1944. While in prison camp in the United States he began his career as a writer and journalist. Released after two years, he returned to Germany and with Alfred Andersch edited and published the magazine Der Ruf in the US Zone. Because of the sharpness of its attacks on the occupation authorities, this publication was suspended a year later. Richter now lives in Munich, where he is a free-lance writer and journalist. BEYOND DEFEAT (Die Geschlagenen) is his first novel and was published in Germany in 1948. -- Not since All Quiet on the Western Front has there been such a moving story of what it was like to be a German soldier. Beyond Defeat recounts that experience in such a dramatic manner that it has been a tremendous success all over Europe. It is a mature book, full of tense atmosphere and colorful soldier language. The conclusions it reaches about the future of an unhappy nation will give both the Germans and the Americans a distinct shock. They show a human understanding and a brilliant insight that should give Hans Werner Richter as appreciative an audience in this country as he has already found abroad. Out of the great tradition of humanists, men such as Mann and Remarque Germans who have always represented the antiauthoritarian mind comes a new and powerful writer. Hans Werner Richter has lived through all the recent phases of his country s history, felt them deeply, and written about them in this new novel in such a way that his book has had a great success all over Europe. It is the story of a young anti-Nazi who was conscripted into the German Army and captured by the Americans at Cassino. He was only too glad to be relieved of a war in which he felt he had no stake. Subsequently there come the dramatic revelations of his treatment by the Americans, of the bitter disillusion among the prisoners in a United States prisoner-of-war camp (caused by the authorities toleration of Nazi control), and the final resolution in which he sees a hope for his own and his country s future.
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