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portada We are Prisoners
We are Prisoners We are Prisoners
Type
Physical Book
Translated by
Introduction by
Year
2019
Language
English
Pages
376
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.9 x 15.2 x 2.0 cm
Weight
0.50 kg.
ISBN13
9781077383449
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We are Prisoners

Oskar Maria Graf (Author) · Ed Walker (Translated by, Introduction by) · Independently Published · Paperback

We are Prisoners - Walker, Ed ; Walker, Ed ; Graf, Oskar Maria

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Synopsis "We are Prisoners "

The autobiography of Oskar Maria Graf, his first major work, was published in 1927. It covers his early youth growing up in the village of Berg by Lake Starnberg, his cruel abuse by his older brother, his escape to Munich, where he worked as a baker, and then to anarchist communes in Switzerland. Graf is drafted into the army, where he reluctantly serves as a horse-groom on the supply trains. He is discharged as mentally unfit, spends a year in an asylum, then returns to Munich, working in a biscuit factory, starting his literary career and making money on the black market. We Are Prisoners paints a fascinating picture of bohemian life in Schwabing, the radical politics of the time, and climaxes with the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republic of 1919. Many of the characters in the novel became well known artists and writers in Weimar Germany. We Are Prisoners (A Confession) is an honest and blithe personal account of momentous events. Graf's quirky literary style combines a self-deprecating and anarchic sense of humour, sympathy for the downtrodden and the Heimat genre of German culture. "He behaves disgracefully and provokes laughter and disbelief, but in so doing, he wins our hearts." THOMAS MANN Translated and introduced by Ed Walker.

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