German Novel and the Affluent Society

Wilfried van der Will is Honorary Professor of Modern German Studies in the Department of Modern Languages at the University of Birmingham. He has published books and essays on German literature and society post-1945, on the worker-culture movement of the Weimar Republic, on culture in the Third Reich, on protest and democracy from the 1960s to the 1980s and on the reception of Nietzsche.R. Hinton Thomas (1912–1983) was a Germanist, member of the University of Warwick, and the author of Nietzsche in German Politics and Society, 1890-1918.

‘A valuable and stimulating survey of the more important tendencies in the German novel as a whole.’– The Listener‘Mr Pascal has an imaginative intelligence which is rare in criticism, and one does not know whether to admire most the nicety of his detail or his grasp of the whole.’– New Statesman‘A sensitive and critical account of eight German novelists, beginning with Goethe and ending with Kafka and Thomas Mann…there is little writing on German literature up to the critical standard.’– Cambridge Review