The Loyal Subject: Heinrich Mann / Edition 1

by Helmut Peitsch

Overview

Published in 1918, Der Untertan by Heinrich Mann (1871-1950) - previously issued in the United States only in parts under the title "Man of Straw" - is a satirical novel that connects the tradition of nineteenth-century German literature with the larger problems faced on the eve of the Nazi era. This edition of The Loyal Subject is introduced and edited by Helmut Peitsch. The translation is adapted, with new portions translated by Daniel Theisen.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780826409553
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	03/01/1998
Series:	German Library , #64
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.83(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Helmut Peitsch
 
THE LOYAL SUBJECT
 
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
 
Translated by Ernest BoydAdapted, with New Portions Translated by Daniel Thiesen

Editorial Reviews

The Loyal Subject, now published in translation for the first time in its complete form, was the first volume of a trilogy that was intended to deal with the whole complicated web of relationships between the activities of government, political parties, big business, and ordinary people during the Wilhelmine period and to show why the debacle of 1914 was inevitable....The novel had undeniable satirical power...rich in comic invention. All in all,...a powerful indictment of a society that seemed increasingly to be composed of the tyrannical and the servile. -- Gordon A. Craig, The New York Review of Books

Gordon A. Craig