German fiction -- 20th century

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Set in Vienna on the eve of World War I, this ... novel of ideas tells the story of Ulrich, ex-soldier and scientist, seducer and skeptic, who finds himself drafted into the grandiose plans for the 70th jubilee of the Emperor Franz Josef.-BooksInPrint.

In 1935 seven men ... escape from a concentration camp. The commandant has seven crosses erected by nailing boards across tree-trunks; his orders are that the man are to be brought back and attached to these crosses, alive or dead. [This book follows the lives of these seven men…

An early brand of feminism was also expressed by Bachmann, who posited women as unhappy victims of a male-centered socio-political establishment. In [this] first novel in an intended trilogy that was published in 1971 ... the female heroine ... struggles to express her artistic …

Sie ist reizbar, ratselhaft und viel alter als er ... und sie wird seine erste Leidenschaft. Sie huter verzweifelt ein Geheimnis. Eines Tages ist sie spurlos verschwunden. Erst Jahre spater sieht er sie wieder. Die fast kriminalistische Erforschung einer sonderbaren Liebe und be…