It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the Pomeranian Chronicle - until he takes some photographs that offer the chance to make a fortune. In Kr???ger's bar, the farmers are plotting their revenge on greedy officials. A mysterious travelling salesman from Berlin , Henning, is stirring up trouble - but no one knows why. Meanwhile the Nazis grow stronger and the Communists fight them in the streets. And at the centre of it all, the ...
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It is summer, 1929, and in a small German town a storm is brewing. The shabby reporter Tredup leads a precarious existence working for the Pomeranian Chronicle - until he takes some photographs that offer the chance to make a fortune. In Kr???ger's bar, the farmers are plotting their revenge on greedy officials. A mysterious travelling salesman from Berlin , Henning, is stirring up trouble - but no one knows why. Meanwhile the Nazis grow stronger and the Communists fight them in the streets. And at the centre of it all, the Mayor, 'Fatty' Gareis, seeks the easy life even as events spiral beyond his control. As tensions erupt between workers and bosses, town and country, Left and Right, alliances are broken, bribes are taken and plots are hatched, until the tension spills over into violence. Hans Fallada's raw, darkly humorous account of a town rife with corruption, greed and brutality, first published in 1931, was written as Weimar Germany collapsed around him. It is an extraordinary novel about the failure of governments and the failings of people. Michael Hofmann's brilliant, colloquialtranslation brings this work of intrigue and foreboding to English readers for the first time.
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This is a novel about rural politics in 1930's Germany. It consists largely of colloquial dialog. When I first started reading it, I found the prose arduous to read. I thought that was because the translation was poor, but I eventually realized that such book is almost impossible to translate. Imagine trying to translate large quantities of early 20th-C. German slang into late 20th-C. proper English; it almost can't be done. The story itself is very interesting, but I don't think it's interesting enough to justify trying to translate it into English.
Fallada's "Little Man, What Now?," and "Alone in Berlin (UK) / Every Man Dies Alone(US)," are masterpieces, written in smooth prose, and well worth everyone's reading. Even though it's basically an interesting story, I'm not sure "A Small Circus," is worth the struggle. Spend your time on Fallada's other important and readable books .
