Description
In the autumn of 1946, a young Swedish reporter travels through a Germany still raw from defeat, witnessing hunger, displacement, and the moral wreckage left behind by war. Rendered with Dagerman’s spare, unsentimental artistry, these scenes read like reportage yet carry the weight of literature—turning everyday brutality into a universal meditation on guilt, suffering, and the struggle to make sense of “history” after the fact. Across streets, workplaces, and crowded interiors, the book traces how ordinary life continues under extraordinary pressure, where fear and responsibility blur and the human cost is impossible to look away from. With its recurring images and haunting tonal restraint, this classic work captures postwar Germany not as a backdrop, but as a living indictment of what survives when the fighting ends.
Available Editions
paperback
University of Minnesota Press
Published Jan 1, 2011
128 pages
ISBN: 9780816677528
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Details
First Published
1967
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for German Autumn by Stig Dagerman.