Das Exil stand für Seghers ganz im Zeichen des antifaschistischen Kampfes. Sie arbeitete, schrieb und beteiligte sich an jeder Aktion gegen den Faschismus. Sie pflegte Kontakte zur Volksfront und vielfältige Kontakte zu Antifaschisten und nahm an Aktionen und Kongressen teil. In der Z...
Storytelling, as Walter Benjamin described it in the 1930s, is exemplified in Anna Seghers' exile novels Das siebte Kreuz and Transit, and also Nadine Gordimer's novels Burger's Daughter and A Sport of Nature. How Seghers and Gordimer responded to the events of their day and their...
Anna Seghers, who has undeniable importance for the Exile literature, combines real and fictional symbols to describe national socialism in Germany in The Seventh Cross. In fact, in her novel The Seventh Cross Anna Seghers describes the cultural and historical process of humanit...
DAS siebte Kreuz (Book)Anna Seghers was the only female participant in the so-called Expressionism debate. She was among the artists and writers who voiced their concerns openly. She defends Modernism in two open letters to Georg Luk谩cs, who originally provided theor...