Der Untertan

Name: Der Untertan
ISBN: 9783596136407

Heinrich Mann

1918·295 pages

Historical Fiction

classics

“Here he is complete -- in his religiosity, his worship of success, and his nameless civil cowardice.”
— Kurt Tucholsky

"Hurraahhhh!!! The Kaiser is coming!!!" Diederich Heßling, an eternally German theme. *Der Untertan*, the story of Diederich Heßling, raised in his younger years by a draconically punishing father and a neglectful mother, then further honed in the school and military drill of the Wilhelminian era, becomes in Heinrich Mann's hands a case study of German obsequiousness and a tyrant mentality that submits to power and power structures in order to ultimately be allowed to participate in them. Heßling, ostensibly as an authentic representative of the German Empire, is in truth its caricature.

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