Anna Seghers (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)
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Although Anna Seghers was primarily a writer of fiction, known for her tightly structured novellas and novels that express the theme of revolutionary solidarity, there is extant a considerable body of her essays, speeches, and letters, notably the three-volume collection Über Kunstwerk und Wirklichkeit (1970-1971; on the work of art and reality). As a writer committed to Communism, Seghers endeavored to define the concept of realism in the so-called debate on Expressionism that took place among leftist exiled writers in the late 1930’s. After her...
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