Blood Brothers

Nakon završetka Prvog svetskog rata nastupio je težak period. Uništena je porodica kao osnovna ćelija društva, ekonomija je stala, a najgore su prošli oni koji su i inače bili u lošoj situaciji - beskućnici i socijalno ugrožene kategorije stanovništva. Početkom 30-tih godina u Berlinu i drugim velik......more

Sometimes the backstory of an author adds to the legend of a great work of literature—Ulysses S. Grant wrote what many consider to be the greatest American autobiography after he learned he would die of cancer to provide for his family after he had lost all his money; Harper Lee wrote a seminal work......more

Interested in this after comparisons to Hans Fallada in a New Statesman review. It's definitely similar. It follows a gang of boys during the weimar period, in that fantastic New Objectivity style. It's even better than Fallada in some respects: less of Fallada's moral wavering, a little bit more......more

This is a novel from the underside of the Weimar Republic, less Isherwood than Alfred Doblin's (Rainer Fassbinder's) Berlin Alexanderplatz, which is a prominent setting. Ernst Haffner was a social worker and he wrote unsparingly of what it was like to be a penniless adolescent in that society. He se......more