Anna Seghers : : the challenge of history / / edited by Helen Fehervary, Christiane Zehl Romero, Amy Kepple Strawser.

• Superior document: German Monitor; volume80
• TeilnehmendeR: Fehervary, Helen,; Romero, Christiane Zehl,; Strawser, Amy Kepple,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden Boston : : Brill | Rodopi,, 2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: German Monitor; volume80.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (388 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.
• Other title: Front Matter -- Copyright Page -- Note on Translations -- Note on Orthography -- Chronology of Anna Seghers’s Life and Works -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- Topographies of Escape, Flight, and Migration in Seghers’s Prose /
• ISBN: 9004409815
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by Helen Fehervary, Christiane Zehl Romero, Amy Kepple Strawser.

Anna Seghers: The Challenge of History features essays by leading scholars devoted to this most important German writer whose novels and stories have been read by millions worldwide. The volume is intended for teachers and students of literature and for general readers. The contributions address facets of Seghers’s large body of work which is characterized by reflections on political events shaping world history and written in a highly imaginative array of narrative styles. The first section focuses on the author’s famous novel The Seventh Cross . Articles in the next two sections analyze her reactions to crises that marked the twentieth century and her connections to other relevant thinkers of her time. The last section features new translations of Seghers’s works.