Fabian

Fabian: The Story of a Moralist

💀“Optimists are bound to despair. I'm a melancholic person, I'm fine.”
📰The only autobiographical novel by Erich Kästner, winner of the Georg Büchner Prize
🎩The fated "death" of a small-town intellectual in a declining era
Highly praised by Hermann Hesse and Graham Greene;
Recommended by Publishers Weekly, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Irish Times;
Selected as one of Deutsche Welle's "Top 100 Novels," and its film adaptation sparked heated discussion.
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【Editor's Recommendation】
*Cruel reality × individual struggle, a tragicomedy of ordinary people during the Great Depression.
-Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, small-town youth Fabian searches for himself in the lavish Berlin, experiencing an absurd yet real lucid dream, and narrating the idealist's loss and persistence, despair and glimmer of hope. "Where should one go now?"
-With a humorous and free-spirited touch, it directly confronts the anxiety and disillusionment of the Great Depression era, creating a tragicomedy filled with fervent hope and despair.
*A new addition to the "Camera Lucida · German Novel Classics" series
-Highly praised by Hermann Hesse and Graham Greene!
-A representative adult novel by Erich Kästner, winner of the Georg Büchner Prize and father of post-war West German children's literature.
-Selected as one of Deutsche Welle's "Top 100 Novels" and adapted into film twice.
*Showcasing the social mirror of the late Weimar Republic
The author personally experienced times of war and depression, accurately capturing the mad world after the depression and before the catastrophe, offering a glimpse into the collapsing scenes of Isherwood's Berlin stories, reflecting our present.
*120*185 paperback small format, lightweight and easy to read, put a classic in your pocket.
*Inner and outer covers present an oil painting texture, closely echoing the ambiguous atmosphere of the work's historical background.
【Expert Recommendation】
In this charming story, the poet has a man wander through today's mad Berlin, a man who is neither strong nor clever, but after all, a man: a man not yet mad, with a heart and a mind. He is also somewhat discouraged and twisted, but wherever he is, he radiates the light of humanity, reminding one of something that was commonplace not long ago, but which now only one in a million still possess. (...) Fabian demonstrates contemporary content in a timeless way, second to none; though it deals with the madhouse of hell, it is as pleasing to the ear as music, and through the filter of art, it is full of elegance.
——Hermann Hesse
I greatly admire Fabian, having read it at least twice.
——Graham Greene
Kästner's idiosyncratic, dissolute satire, like an Otto Dix painting, expresses those feelings of fervent hope mixed with despair with a humorous and free-spirited touch.
——The Irish Times
Fabian was condemned for its ‘improper’ themes. It shows us the collapsing scenes of Isherwood’s Berlin stories, retaining Isherwood’s keen wit, but with a deeper underlying tragic sense.
——The Times Literary Supplement
Kästner successfully conveys his message about the collapse of moral standards in Berlin... But what truly says it all is Fabian's own ironic remark: "We live in a great era, and it gets greater by the day."
——Publishers Weekly

2025-01-01

北京联合出版公司

Lucida

280

9787559681287