The Cambridge Companion to the Modern German Novel

Theodor Fontane, Hermann Hesse, Thomas Mann, Franz Kafka, Gunther Grass, and Patrick SÜskind are among the writers examined in this comprehensive introduction to the development of the German novel in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Including a chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion conveys the vitality and complexity of the modern German novel, and the debates surrounding it.