Youth Without God

Name: Youth Without God
ISBN: 9783744830072

Ödön von Horváth

1937·142 pages

Historical Fiction

classics

“The story is great and cuts right through the moral state of the world today.”
— Hermann Hesse

“a school, a more or less brutalized youth, and a teacher who has a conscience, must deny himself, and finally can't anymore.”
— Alfred Döblin

Ödön von Horváth's third novel, 'Youth Without God,' depicts the daily life of a young history teacher in the Third Reich from the perspective of the first-person narrator. The young teacher is critically opposed to the Nazi regime and is initially aghast at the immoral attitude of his students and their statements, which are already influenced by Nazi propaganda. Nevertheless, he conforms to the system, also to avoid jeopardizing his new job. When the class spends the Easter holidays at a tent camp, events pick up pace. A camera disappears, an affair is exposed, and a murder occurs. Then a trial ensues, and the matter of God also comes up for discussion.

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