Exil
1940
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4.19
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856
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Not since The Oppermans has Feuchtwanger so successfully tapped the rich vein of current social problems as he does in this realistic picture of the German exiles in their new setting (in this case, Paris). ""Paris Gazette"" is the name of the journal run by the exiles, but controlled by a man who fears the repercussions of vitriolic pronouncements against the Nazis. Through the interlinking of the lives of men and women concerned, one gets highlights and shadows of an unreal new world, honeycombed with Nazi propagandists. The fight for principle, infinitely more important than the individual concerned, wrecks lives—and they all face another period of rebuilding. A powerful and challenging book-not for hammock reading. [Kirkus Reviews]
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Author
Lion Feuchtwanger
Author · 20 books
Lion Feuchtwanger was a German Jewish emigre. A renowned novelist and playwright who fled Europe during World War II and lived in Los Angeles from 1941 until his death. A fierce critic of the Nazi regime years before it assumed power precipitated his departure, after a brief internment in France, from Europe. He and his wife Marta obtained asylum in the United States in 1941 and remained there in exile until they died.
