Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
367
Language
English
Published
Jan 1, 1997
Publisher
Halban Publishers
ISBN-10
1870015509
ISBN-13
9781870015509
Description
A novel which won the Prix Medicis in 1987. It is loosely based on the troubled life of Gottfried Benn (1886-1956), the German Expressionist poet. Whilst most writers fled Nazism, Benn opted to stay, becoming - briefly - a fellow traveller of barbarism.