Once a Jailbird: A Novel
By Hans Fallada
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For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco, and dreaming of the day of his release.
Then he gets out.
As Willi tries to make a new life for himself in Hamburg, finding a job and even love, he still cannot escape his past. Gradually he becomes sucked into a world of drink, desperation, and deceit—and, with one terrible act, he is ensnared in a noose of his own making.
Hans Fallada, whose influential works include Alone in Berlin and The Drinker, brilliantly crafts a dark and moving story— describing a seedy criminal underworld of shabby lives and violent deeds, and showing how our actions always catch up with us. Yet Once a Jailbird remains a novel that is “lit by love, the love of truth and love of humanity; it has the courage to look things in the eye, and to sketch them exactly as they were” (Hermann Hesse).
Hans Fallada
Hans Fallada, eigentlich Rudolf Wilhelm Friedrich Ditzen (* 21. Juli 1893 in Greifswald; † 5. Februar 1947 in Berlin) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller. Bereits mit dem ersten, 1920 veröffentlichten Roman Der junge Goedeschal verwendete Rudolf Ditzen das Pseudonym Hans Fallada. Es entstand in Anlehnung an zwei Märchen der Brüder Grimm. Der Vorname bezieht sich auf den Protagonisten von Hans im Glück und der Nachname auf das sprechende Pferd Falada aus Die Gänsemagd: Der abgeschlagene Kopf des Pferdes verkündet so lange die Wahrheit, bis die betrogene Prinzessin zu ihrem Recht kommt. Fallada wandte sich spätestens 1931 mit Bauern, Bonzen und Bomben gesellschaftskritischen Themen zu. Fortan prägten ein objektiv-nüchterner Stil, anschauliche Milieustudien und eine überzeugende Charakterzeichnung seine Werke. Der Welterfolg Kleiner Mann – was nun?, der vom sozialen Abstieg eines Angestellten am Ende der Weimarer Republik handelt, sowie die späteren Werke Wolf unter Wölfen, Jeder stirbt für sich allein und der postum erschienene Roman Der Trinker werden der sogenannten Neuen Sachlichkeit zugerechnet. (Wikipedia)
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