by Walter Mehring · Claassen · tapa dura · ISBN 9783546464468
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«Die verlorene Bibliothek» is the cultural autobiography of Walter Mehring, published by Claassen in hardcover (320 pages, in German).
Walter Mehring reconstructs from exile his father's library and recounts how Nazism destroyed faith in culture: his own books were burned and his father's collection was confiscated and destroyed in Vienna in 1938. Unpacking these works in memory, he reflects on cultural loss and literature in times of conflict.
Subtitle: «Autobiographie einer Kultur». The work was originally published in 1951; this Claassen edition is from 1978.
For readers of memoirs and European cultural history, especially those interested in the exile of German writers under Nazism.
