Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: “A Feeling for History”: The Popular Front Novel
1. Epic Forms and the Crisis of the Novel
2. After the Revolution: Hans Marchwitza, The Kumiaks
3. The Tasks of Emigration
4. Place and Plot: Anna Seghers, The Seventh Cross
5. Ghostly Solidarities: Eduard Claudius, Green Olives and Bare Mountains
6. Die Deutsche Misère? Bertolt Brecht, Mother Courage and Her Children
Epilogue: The “Immense Window of Change”?
Notes
Index