Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: "A feeling for history" : the Popular Front novel
  • Epic forms and the crisis of the novel
  • After the revolution : Hans Marchwitza, The Kumiaks
  • The tasks of emigration
  • Place and plot : Anna Seghers, The seventh cross
  • Ghostly solidarities : Eduard Claudius, Green olives and bare mountains
  • Die deutsche Misere? : Bertolt Brecht: Mother Courage and her children
  • Epilogue: the "immense window of change."