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It is the summer of 1929, and in a small German town, a storm is brewing.
Tredup, a shabby reporter working for the Pomeranian Chronicle, leads a precarious existence . . . until he takes some photographs that offer him a chance to make a fortune.
While Tredup contemplates his next move, the town is buzzing. Farmers are plotting their revenge against greedy officials, a mysterious traveling salesman is stirring up trouble, and all the while, the Nazi party grows stronger as the Communists fight them in the street.
As the town slowly slips into chaos, Mayor “Fatty” Gareis does everything in his power to seek the easy life.
As tensions mount between workers and bosses, town and country, and Left and Right, alliances are broken, bribes are taken, and plots are hatched, until the tension spills over into violence.
From the brilliant mind of one of Germany’s most celebrated writers, A Small Circus is a genuine and frightening tale of small-town Germany during a time of unrest. It belongs in the collection of every reader who has enjoyed his break-out classics.
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- Sales Rank: #2023363 in Books
- Published on: 2015-01-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.25" h x 5.75" w x 1.50" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 592 pages
Review
“Uncommonly vivid and original.”—Robert Musil
“Real love and real humanity.”—Hermann Hesse
“The best account of small-town Germany ... so terribly genuine, it is frightening”—Kurt Tucholsky
“This novel's genius ... lies in Fallada's ability to reveal ... as well as to analyze the macabre game of musical chairs that was the Weimar Republic. Fallada gives us front-row seats to Germany's decade-long quest for a sacrificial scapegoat that culminated in the Nazi takeover. ... Two years after Alone in Berlin's runaway success, A Small Circus continues the Fallada revival that owes so much to the efforts of its translator, the poet Michael Hofmann .”—André Naffis-Sahely, Independent
“Fallada creates characters with Dickensian prodigality, each yokel, hack, pig and pen-pusher brought to life in Michael Hofmann's beautifully judged translation ... a generous, life-affirming treat.”—Jake Kerridge, Telegraph
“Michael Hofmann ... comes as close as possible to giving us Fallada's work in all its coarse, humorous, immediate, tragic glory.”—Charlotte Moore,Spectator
“Not for the first time, all praise is due to Michael Hofmann's art and feel for nuance. His translation catches the many voices - some exasperated, others bewildered, a few downright angry - that make this bold, exuberant and candid narrative sizzle with life and the relentlessly shocking reality of it all.”—Irish Times
“Fallada's own experiences as a regional journalist in north Germany underlie the action, and it is this sense of realism, combined with an ear for dialogue and an acute understanding of human frailty, that make the novel such an authentic portrayal of an imploding era.”—Ben Hutchinson, Observer
About the Author
Hans Fallada was born Rudolf Wilhelm Adolf Ditzen in 1893 in Greifswald, northeastern Germany, and took his pen name from a Brothers Grimm fairy tale. He spent much of his life in prison or in psychiatric care, yet produced some of the most significant German novels of the twentieth century, including Once a Jailbird; Little Man, What Now?; and Every Man Dies Alone, which was only published in English for the first time in 2009, to near-universal acclaim. He died in Berlin in 1947.
Michael Hofmann is a German-born poet and translator. He has translated such authors as Hans Fallada, Franz Kafka, Patrick Süskind, and many others, and has won numerous awards for his work. He lives in London, England.
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
Lessons in political corruption
By Derek Whelan
Although written over 80 years ago, and based in a rural part of Germany the topic has universal relevance. The mix of smalltown politics, the media and commercial interests is as potent as ever.
Here are characters trying to live their lives as best they can but always victims of forces which they feel they can influence but cannot control. The background against which they contend is the time of the Great Depression; looking at Europe today gives us some understanding of why they did as they did.
None of this has gone away.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Powerful Insight on why the Weimar Republic Failed
By Tommy Dooley
This is a translation of the 1931 book by Rudolf Ditzen, who wrote under the pseudonym of Hans Fallada. He uses a small fictional town called Altholm as his vehicle. It starts off with a small circus coming to town but refusing to take out an advert in the town's least successful and very provincial local paper `The Chronicle'. So the editor writes a piece about the circus saying how rubbish the first performance was, despite not actually being there.
That sets the scenes for the childish Machiavellian antics that run through this book. We then have cows being confiscated by tax collectors to be auctioned in lieu of payment; the farmers refuse to bid at the subsequent auction and then block the tax inspectors exit, leading to a hullabaloo. Things soon spiral out of control when the farmers stage a march through the town to air their grievances. The police behave like absolute thugs and the local politicians keep playing double deals to try to please all of the people all of the time.
We see how the townies react to the farmers and the way the papers twist everything whilst absolutely everyone is stabbing each other in the back. All the while the influence of national politics looms over everyone in the shape of the `Jewish Republic' as the Weimar Republic is referred to in this work.
This is written in the style that was fashionable at the time, in that the author tries to remove as much of himself as possible from the tale, leaving the characters to develop the story. So there is an awful lot of dialogue with very limited scene setting. This takes a while to get used to it, but it is worth persisting as the story is truly fascinating. You do start to see why people would turn to a strong alternative even The National Socialists. There were some fifteen main political parties at this time the largest in 1930 being The Social Democratic Party with only 24.5% of the vote. So not what could be claimed as a mandate and the second biggest party by this time were the National Socialists on 18%.
There are no real role model characters here, some of them are ruthless brutes. Like the farmer who hates his children, the reporter who hides money from his wife and the police who lie even on oath. This is not even warts and all it is saying that all of society is plagued with problems, half naked self interest being the most prevalent, looking for scapegoats then becomes a national pass time; so you can see where society was heading.
This is a fairly long book too so requires commitment but I was hooked by at least half way through and it is the fact that this was written in 1931 Germany that makes it almost essential reading. Michael Hoffman has done a great job of translation and the foreword by Jenny Williams is both edifying and enlightening. This is a five star book on many levels, but I do not `love' it as such hence my 4 star rating.
12 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
A ponderous tome
By Sverre Svendsen
This was Fallada's first major work, submitted to the publisher in 1930. Had I not read two of Fallada's later excellent works (Every Man Dies Alone and Little Man What Now?) I would not have bought this confusing, ponderous, bloated, provincial novel. If it had not been for the Dramatis Personae included by the translator Michael Hoffman, I would not have gotten far in this almost six hundred page book. The Dramatis Personae lists some seventy characters who contribute to swell the narrative until it reaches a long anticipated but unimpressive conclusion--about twenty of them with major roles, another twenty-five with major supportive roles, the remaining twenty-five with minor contributing roles. The interweaving plot unfolds painfully for the unfortunate reader. I would rate this book one star as far as the reading "pleasure" it provides.
However, as a study of rural and small town German life in the late 1920s, it is an excellent work describing the divisive nature of the social fabric and deserves four stars for that aspect. There are hostilities between rural and urban populations, peasants and business people, civil servants and journalists, and local and national authorities. The fractionalization of society is compounded by at least twenty contending political parties. The greed, the administrative ineptness and the colossal burden of the reparation payments doomed the Weimar Republic. The Nazi Party arose as a fiercely nationalistic movement which--unfortunately as fate would have it--was seized on as a solution by a major portion of the German population.
The style of writing deserves comment. About two thirds of the book consists of dialogue, often between numbers of interacting characters. Many readers will find the magnitude of this quirky literal idiosyncrasy disruptive and distracting. Others may enjoy the substratum of personal motives the dialogue discloses. Readers have to stay alert and constantly remind themselves of who the characters are. It can be a cerebral challenge.
There is strong character development and exposure of the following roles: Hermann Stuff, the do-everything schemer and conservative editor of a small newspaper, The Chronicle; Max Tredup, co-emplyee of Stuff, a bungling aspiring co-conspirator of more than one faction; "Fatty" or "Red" Gareis, the autocratic socialist Mayor of Altholm, who makes the decision that affects the main plot and influences most subplots of this novel; Frerksen, Gareis' assistant, his Police Commander who becomes ostracized by the farmers for his brutal handling of their "peaceful" demonstration; Franz Manzow, city council member, businessman, would-be conciliator and sexual predator of little girls; Franz Reimers, leader of the farmers' Bauernschaft movement and staunch Headman of Gramzow; Albin Banz, dirt farmer and victim of the violence perpetrated by Frerksen, becomes a mentally deranged murderer; and Georg Henning, travelling salesman, ardent chief activist and flag-bearer for the peasant farmers. This is an impressive cast for readers who enjoy a plethora of idiosyncratic characters. But does it make enjoyable reading? For me: NOT, but three stars for this aspect of the novel.
Overall I can only rate this work two stars because of its frustration factors. I think this book is an exception among Fallada's works. I have two more of his books unread on the shelf and I believe I will enjoy them.
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