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Seventh Cross: First Edition
Seghers, Anna; Galston, James A. (Translator)
B000E3TQ26
1942 Little, Brown and Company, Good; No Jacket, First Edition
1942 FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING HARDCOVER. 'Published September, 1942' stated on copyright page with no additional printings indicated. Front hinge loosening (netting visible), pages toned, spine faded, ink staining on back page edges. Anna Seghers (November 19, 1900, Mainz - June 1, 1983, Berlin) was a German writer famous for depicting the moral experience of the Second World War. Born Netty Reiling in Mainz, 1900, she married Laszlo Radvanyi, a Hungarian Communist in 1925. She studied in Cologne and Heidelberg history, arts history and Chinese. She joined the Communist Party of Germany in 1928, at the height of its struggle against the burgeoning National Socialist German Workers Party. Her 1932 novel, Die Gefährten was a prophetic warning of the dangers of Fascism, which got her arrested by the Gestapo. But perhaps she would have suffered at the hands of the Nazis anyway, since her family background was partly Jewish. After German troops invaded the French Third Republic in 1940, she fled to Marseilles and one year later to Mexico, where she founded the anti-fascist 'Heinrich-Heine-Klub', named after the German Jewish poet Heinrich Heine, and founded 'Freies Deutschland' (Free Germany), an academic journal. During this time, she wrote The Seventh Cross, for which she received the Büchner-Prize in 1947. The novel was set in 1936 and described the escape of seven prisoners from a concentration camp. It was published in the United States in 1942 and produced as a movie (1944) by MGM starring Spencer Tracy. The Seventh Cross was one of the very few depictions of Nazi concentration camps, in either literature or the cinema, during World War II. Seghers best-known story The Excursion of the Dead Girls (1946), written in Mexico, was an autobiographical reminiscence of a pre-World War I class excursion on the Rhine river in which the actions of the protagonist's classmates are seen in light of their decisions and ultimate fates during both world wars. In describing them, the German countryside, and her soon-to-be destroyed hometown Mainz, Seghers gives the reader a strong sense of lost innocence and the senseless injustices of war, from which there proves to be no escape, whether you sympathized with the Nazi party or not. Other notable Seghers stories include Sagen von Artemis (1938) and The Ship of the Argonauts (1953), both based on myths. -- Wikipedia
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