by Hans Fallada · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781933633657
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«The Drinker» is Hans Fallada's autobiographical novel, published by Melville House in paperback (304 pages, in English).
Written by Hans Fallada in 1944 in a coded notebook while confined in a German asylum, the novel follows the downfall of an intelligent man who takes refuge in drink and watches his marriage and surroundings deteriorate. It is a self-portrait by Hans Fallada, published after his death.
Posthumous work originally published in 1950 as «Der Trinker»; the English translation is by Charlotte and A.L. Lloyd.
A classic of twentieth-century German literature, for readers interested in autobiographical narrative about addiction and its consequences.
Hans Fallada was a German writer of the first half of the 20th century. Some of his better known novels include Little Man, What Now? (1932) and Every Man Dies Alone (1947). His works belong predominantly to the New Objectivity literary style, a style associated with an emotionless reportage approach, with precision of detail, and a veneration for 'the fact'. Fallada's pseudonym derives from a combination of characters found in Grimms' Fairy Tales: The titular protagonist of Hans in Luck, and Fallada the magical talking horse in The Goose Girl.
