Books by Hans Fallada

"Jeg har naturligvis ikke altid drukket, det er endda ikke så længe siden, at jeg begyndte på det. Tidligere kunne jeg ikke fordrage spiritus; jeg drak højst et glas øl en gang imellem; jeg syntes, at vin havde en sur smag, og lugten af snaps gjorde mig syg. Men så kom der en tid, hvor det begyndte at gå mig dårligt."En menneskelig skæbne, grebet lige ud af livet og fortalt med drankerens egne ord, jævnt og gribende. Han fortæller om sit alkoholmisbrug fra start til slut, hvad det har gjort ved hans liv, ham selv og ikke mindst hans familie. Romanen er ved sin ukunstlede form, sin ægthed og menneskelighed folkelig kunst i ordets allerbedste betydning. Man ryster ikke indtrykket af sig. Personerne og deres skæbne lever i en, længe efter at man har læst bogen til ende."Drankeren" er en selvbiografisk roman, som Hans Fallada skrev, mens han sad i fængsel for mordforsøg på sin egen kone.Den tyske forfatter Hans Fallada (1893-1947) er særligt kendt for romanen "Lille mand, hvad nu?" (1932). Hans social-politiske romaner kredser om arbejderliv og småborgerlighed i storbylivet og er blevet oversat til flere sprog.

"Hackendahl gi‘r sig ikke" skildrer en berlinsk droskekusk, der får sværere og sværere ved at forsørge sin familie, fordi kunderne er begyndt at foretrække de motordrevne taxaer. Romanen giver et levende billede af Tyskland og de begivenheder, der udspillede sig her i årene 1914 til 1930.Den tyske forfatter Hans Fallada (egentlig Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen – 1893-1947) skrev en række politisk-sociale romaner, der kredser om arbejderliv og småborgerlighed i 1930‘ernes storbymiljø. Navnet Hans Fallada er et forfatterpseudonym dannet af to karakterer fra brødrene Grimms eventyr. Hans gennembrud kom med romanen "Lille mand, hvad nu?" fra 1932. Hans bøger er oversat til flere sprog."Fallada er en fortæller af Guds nåde, en eventyrlig fabulator med en uudtømmelig fantasi. I ‘Hackendahl gi‘r sig ikke‘ er disse hans egenskaber lige så friske og levende som i de tidligere bøger. Ens interesse slappes ikke et øjeblik gennem den tykke roman." – Wald. Brøgger, Tidens Tegn

En uafrystelig romanskildring af den fysiske og mentale ruin, Anden Verdenskrig efterlod Tyskland i. Skrevet af en sand mester, Hans Fallada. April 1945: Krigen er ovre, men dr. Doll kan ikke slippe angsten. Om natten hjemsøges han af mareridtsagtige billeder af bombetomter, der spærrer ham inde - ham og resten af Tyskland. Mest af alt ønsker han at slippe af med følelsen af kollektiv skyld, men han kan ikke rette op på fortidens fejltagelser. Slet ikke i den lille by i det nordøstlige Tyskland, hvor han er borgmester. Den er blevet overtaget af russerne. Så dr. Doll flygter: til Berlin - og ind i et morfinmisbrug, hvor hvert fix føles som 'en lille død'. I den sønderbombede by, hvor kaos råder, forsøger han sammen med sin kone - som ligeledes er morfinafhængig - at skabe sig en ny tilværelse. Og gradvist, ét skridt ad gangen, begynder han at tro på en lysere fremtid. MARERIDT I BERLIN er en slags selvstændig forløber til Hans Falladas internationale megasucces, Alene i Berlin. Den blev skrevet året inden (i 1946) og har et stærkere selvbiografisk islæt.

Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in BerlinIn these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily struggles in marks and pfennigs; a convict makes a desperate leap from a moving train; a ring - and with it a marriage - is lost in a basket of potatoes.Here, as in his novels, Fallada is by turns tough, darkly funny, streetwise and effortlessly engaging, writing with acute feeling about ordinary lives shaped by forces larger than themselves: addiction, love, money.

A powerful story of the shattering effects of the First World War on both a family and a country - from Hans Fallada, bestselling author of Alone in Berlin'You only want to tyrannise, you're only happy when we're all trembling before you. You're just like your Kaiser. He who doesn't obey is shot down...'Gustav Hackendahl's will is law. Known as 'Iron Gustav', he runs his family and his Berlin carriage business with stern, unyielding discipline. But his children have wills of their own, and soon they slip from his control - some to better lives, some towards disaster. As war breaks out and Gustav's beloved Germany is devastated by hardship and violence, he finds everything he believes in destroyed. Can the man of iron endure, or even change?Brutal and moving, written with Hans Fallada's gift for capturing the small tragedies of ordinary lives, Iron Gustav is a heartbreaking family chronicle and an unflinching portrayal of the First World War and its aftermath.

For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco - and dreaming of the day of his release.Then he gets out.As Willi tries to make a new life for himself in Hamburg, finding a job and even love, he still cannot escape his past. Gradually he becomes sucked into a world of drink, desperation and deceit, and with one terrible act, he is ensnared in a noose of his own making...Hans Fallada's dark and moving 1934 novel brilliantly describes a seedy criminal underworld of shabby lives and violent deeds, showing how our actions always catch up with us.

A powerful 1931 portrayal of a German town on the brink of chaos, from bestselling author Hans Fallada (writer of Alone in Berlin)It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the Pomeranian Chronicle - until he takes some photographs that offer the chance to make a fortune. In Kr ger's bar, the farmers are plotting their revenge on greedy officials. A mysterious travelling salesman from Berlin , Henning, is stirring up trouble - but no one knows why. Meanwhile the Nazis grow stronger and the Communists fight them in the streets. And at the centre of it all, the Mayor, 'Fatty' Gareis, seeks the easy life even as events spiral beyond his control.As tensions erupt between workers and bosses, town and country, Left and Right, alliances are broken, bribes are taken and plots are hatched, until the tension spills over into violence.'Uncommonly vivid and original' Robert Musil'Real love and real humanity' Hermann Hesse'The best account of small-town Germany ... so terribly genuine, it is frightening' Kurt Tucholsky'This novel's genius ... lies in Fallada's ability to reveal ... as well as to analyse the macabre game of musical chairs that was the Weimar Republic. Fallada gives us front-row seats to Germany's decade-long quest for a sacrificial scapegoat that culminated in the Nazi takeover ... Two years after Alone in Berlin's runaway success, A Small Circus continues the Fallada revival that owes so much to the efforts of its translator, the poet Michael Hofmann' Andr Naffis-Sahely, Independent'Fallada creates characters with Dickensian prodigality, each yokel, hack, pig and pen-pusher brought to life in Michael Hofmann's beautifully judged translation ... a generous, life-affirming treat' Jake Kerridge, Telegraph'Michael Hofmann ... comes as close as possible to giving us Fallada's work in all its coarse, humorous, immediate, tragic glory' Charlotte Moore, Spectator'Not for the first time, all praise is due to Michael Hofmann's art and feel for nuance. His translation catches the many voices - some exasperated, others bewildered, a few downright angry - that make this bold, exuberant and candid narrative sizzle with life and the relentlessly shocking reality of it all' Irish Times'Fallada's own experiences as a regional journalist in north Germany underlie the action, and it is this sense of realism, combined with an ear for dialogue and an acute understanding of human frailty, that make the novel such an authentic portrayal of an imploding era' Ben Hutchinson, Observer