Anna Seghers, Author Monthly Review Press $13 (0p) ISBN 978-0-85345-712-1
The first title in the publisher's Voices of Resistance series, this work is about the escape of a Communist, George Heisler, from a Nazi concentration camp and his attempts to flee the country while avoiding the Gestapo and the complicit local...
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Anna Seghers, trans from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo. NYRB Classics, $17.95 (320p) ISBN 978-1-68137-535-9
German writer Seghers (1900–1983) was among the first writers to address the rise and aftermath of Nazism with works such as Transit, a legacy well documented in this clear-eyed collection. The stories straddle history—“The Square” follows the...
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Anna Seghers, trans. from the German by Margot Bettauer Dembo. New York Review Books, $16.95 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-68137-212-9
Originally published in 1942 and available now in its first unabridged English translation, this trenchant tale about life in Nazi Germany is notable for being one of the earliest works of fiction to acknowledge the existence of concentration camps.
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