Overview

Full Product Details

9781590176252

Table of Contents

Reviews

Transit is Seghers' best full-length novel. And Transit may be the greatest Exilroman ever... -- Dialog International <br> <br> Anna Seghers in Transit has painted a grim and crowded picture of Marseille when it was still a port of possible escape for the fugitives of all Europe...[ Transit 's] very air of confusion and blind groping is consonant with its theme...it is credible and arresting...there is an amazing variety and reality in event the least of the characters. -- Christian Science Monitor <br> <br> No reader will question the author's sincerity as she strives to anatomize the refugee mind. -- The New York Times Book Review <br> <br> Tranist belongs to those books that entered my life, and to which I continue to engage with in my writing, so much that I have to pick it up every couple years to see what has happened between me and it. --Christa Wolf

This novel, completed in 1942, is in my opinion the most beautiful Seghers has written. . . . I doubt that our post-1933 literature can point to many novels that have been written with such somnambulistic sureness and are almost flawless. --Heinrich Boll<br><br> Tranist belongs to those books that entered my life, and to which I continue to engage with in my writing, so much that I have to pick it up every couple years to see what has happened between me and it. --Christa Wolf<br><br> Transit is Seghers' best full-length novel. And Transit may be the greatest Exilroman ever... -- Dialog International <br> <br> Anna Seghers in Transit has painted a grim and crowded picture of Marseille when it was still a port of possible escape for the fugitives of all Europe...[ Transit 's] very air of confusion and blind groping is consonant with its theme...it is credible and arresting...there is an amazing variety and reality in event the least of the characters. -- Christian Science Monitor <br> <br> No reader will question the author's sincerity as she strives to anatomize the refugee mind. -- The New York Times Book Review <br>

Author Information

Anna Seghers (nee Netty Reiling; 1900-1983) was born in Mainz, Germany, into an upper-middle-class Jewish family. She was a sickly and introverted child by her own account, but became an intellectually curious student, eventually earning a doctorate in art history at the University of Heidelberg in 1924; her first story, written under the name Antje Seghers, was published in the same year. In 1925 she married a Hungarian immigrant economist and began her writing career in earnest. By 1929 Seghers had joined the Communist Party, given birth to her first child, and received the Kleist Prize for her first novel, The Revolt of the Fisherman. Having settled in France in 1933, Seghers was forced to flee again after the 1940 Nazi invasion. With the aid of Varian Fry, Seghers, her husband, and two children sailed from Marseille to Mexico on a ship that included among its passengers Victor Serge, Andre Breton, and Claude Levi-Strauss. After the war she moved to East Berlin, where she became an emblematic figure of East German letters, actively championing the work of younger writers from her position as president of the Writers Union and publishing at a steady pace. Among Seghers's internationally regarded works are The Seventh Cross (1939; adapted for film in 1944 by MGM), one of the only World War II-era depictions of Nazi concentration camps; the novella Excursion of the Dead Girls (1945); The Dead Stay Young (1949); and the story collection Benito's Blue (1973).

Tab Content 6

Customer Reviews

Recent Reviews

Countries Available