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ALFRED ANDERSCH (1914-1980), was one of the foremost novelists of post-War Germany. Like Heinrich Boll and Gunter Grass, Andersch was one of the most persuasive and constructive critics of the Federal Republic's fledgling democracy. In the post-War years, Andersch helped establish a new German literature for democracy, and one of his numerous novels, Sansibar, (translated as Flight to Afar and now re-issued by the Toby Press) was translated into every major language and became and international. A master stylist, Andersch was one of the finest writers Germany has seen since the Second World War.