The d'Arthes Case

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The d'Arthes Case / Der Fall d'Arthez


1968, 321 pages
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Hans Erich Nossack was born in Hamburg in 1901, and much of his writing was shaped by his relationship to his native city, where he died in 1977. His work was banned by the Nazi regime and most of his manuscripts were destroyed by the allied bombing of Hamburg in 1943. Hailed by Jean-Paul Sartre as one of the great German existentialist novelists, Hans Erich Nossack has long been considered a major writer throughout Europe. His essays, poems, plays and novels, including Dem unbekannten Sieger, Der Fall d'Arthez and Unmögliche Beweisaufnahme, won him some of Europe’s most important literary prizes.

Hans Erich Nossack was born in Hamburg in 1901, and much of his writing was shaped by his relationship to his native city, where he died in 1977....


OTHER PUBLICATIONS

Give Me a Sign of Life Again Soon
Year of Publication: 2001
Hans Erich NossackYear of Publication: 2001

On the occasion of Hans Erich Nossack’s 100th birthday, Suhrkamp published a selection of his correspondence from the years between 1943 and 1956 that shows Nossack as an important correspondent in conversation with Hermann Kasack, Peter Suhrkamp, Hans H. König, Ernst Kreuder, Peter Huchel, Joseph Breitbach and others.


The correspondence contained in this volume...

The Diaries 1943–1977
Year of Publication: 1997
Hans Erich NossackYear of Publication: 1997

These diaries are important documents in understanding Hans Erich Nossack, a singular as well as exemplary literary figure of the 20th century; beyond that, they offer – both gripping and enlightening – an insight into a time in which the young Federal Republic of Germany was formed. After their publication, the importance of these diaries was recognised immediately and the edition received...

For the Sake of Brevity
Year of Publication: 1975
Hans Erich NossackYear of Publication: 1975

The short texts gathered in this volume were written between 1946 and 1974. In snapshots they convey the quintessence of a long literary biography.


To the Unknown Hero
Year of Publication: 1969
Hans Erich NossackYear of Publication: 1969

»Hans Erich Nossack belongs to the extraordinary lineage of German writers that includes Hesse, Kafka, Rilke, and Novalis. Jean-Paul Sartre has called him ›the most interesting contemporary German...

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The End
Year of Publication: 1961
Hans Erich NossackYear of Publication: 1961

In 1943, three months after the »end of Hamburg«, Hans Erich Nossack gives an account of the catastrophe he witnessed. »Fate spared me playing a part in it … In my eyes, the entire...

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The Impossible Proof
Year of Publication: 1959
Hans Erich NossackYear of Publication: 1959

One of the greatest pieces of prose that German post-war literature has produced: The Impossible Proof, whose central theme is mankind’s »departure into the...

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Netherlands (Uitgeverij Oevers)

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Wait for November
Year of Publication: 1955
Hans Erich NossackYear of Publication: 1955

»A book that dares tell a real love story«: A woman leaves her husband to go with another she met one hour before.


»The power of love to crack the frozen surface of...

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An Offering for the Dead
Year of Publication: 1947
Hans Erich NossackYear of Publication: 1947

»In Nossack’s work a survivor’s stay in a city of the dead filled with memories of their lives becomes an offering for the dead, as the title »Nekyia« suggests. Reality, which is experienced as a...

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Russia (AST)

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Hans Erich Nossack was born in Hamburg in 1901.