More Lives Than One: A Biography of Hans Fallada. Jenny Williams
More Lives Than One: A Biography of Hans Fallada Hans Fallada was a drug addict, womanizer, alcoholic, jailbird and thief. This title tells the story of Hans Fallada, whose real name was Rudolf Ditzen. It chronicles his turbulent life as a writer, husband and father, shadowed by mental torment...
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More Lives Than One: A Biography of Hans Fallada Hans Fallada was a drug addict, womanizer, alcoholic, jailbird and thief. This title tells the story of Hans Fallada, whose real name was Rudolf Ditzen. It chronicles his turbulent life as a writer, husband and father, shadowed by mental torment and long periods in psychiatric care. Full description
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780241952672 (0241952670)
Publish date: February 1st 2012
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
I love the books of Hans Fallada (the pen name for writer Rudolf Ditzen) and this succinct and calm biography places his work in the context of an interesting and colourful life. This embraces German history from 1893 to 1947, but Fallada was not really a major, established writer, although he did b...
A stunning, if somewhat depressing, biography of Hans Fallada. Hans Fallada was all but forgotten outside Germany when his 1947 novel, Alone in Berlin (US title: Every Man Dies Alone), was reissued in English in 2009, whereupon it became a best seller and reintroduced Hans Fallada's work to a new ge...
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