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Ladataan... Tales from the Underworld: Selected Shorter Fiction (Penguin Modern Classics)Tekijä: Hans Fallada
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Darkly funny, searingly honest short stories from Hans Fallada, author of bestselling Alone in BerlinIn these stories, criminals lament how hard it is to scrape a living by breaking and entering; families measure their daily struggles in marks and pfennigs; a convict makes a desperate leap from a moving train; a ring - and with it a marriage - is lost in a basket of potatoes.Here, as in his novels, Fallada is by turns tough, darkly funny, streetwise and effortlessly engaging, writing with acute feeling about ordinary lives shaped by forces larger than themselves- addiction, love, money. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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What I like about Fallada’s writing is the way he manages to capture the sepia tones of life in Germany between the wars and during WW2, and how he tells the stories of flawed ordinary people who somehow manage to be engaging characters all the same. He was not living that life in sepia, of course, he was living it as dreary realism, as the introduction to this collection of short stories explains. What Jenny Williams does really well in this introduction is to show how these mostly autobiographical stories mesh with events in Fallada’s turbulent life: periods of unemployment; working as a labourer for the landed gentry, his addictions to alcohol and morphine, marriage and fatherhood and his imprisonment for embezzlement. She also shows how some of these stories reappear in his novels, so it’s an introduction well worth reading.
It sounds grim, but there is a jauntiness about some of the stories, and a refusal to give in. I particularly liked the stories about struggles with married life and fatherhood… in ‘Happiness and Woe’ (1932) he depicts the simple games of father and son, and the father’s anxiety about having to leave a small child at home alone. It couldn’t be helped: his wife was at work and he had to go into town to collect his unemployment relief payment so that the rent could be paid. But then there is his terrible failure when his sense of relief takes him to drinking at the bar afterwards…
‘Fifty Marks and A Merry Christmas’ (1932) is about a young couple living close to the breadline and their dreams of spending a Christmas bonus from his work. At the moment The Guardian is running a series about poverty in Australia and Fallada’s story with its Christmas wishlist shows the same melancholy detail. Finding the money for simple things such as a haircut is a struggle, and the purchase of a lottery ticket is not the folly it appears to be but rather a desperate clutch at hope for better things.
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2018/09/21/tales-from-the-underworld-by-hans-fallada-tr... ( )