"These two plays are set in the period of roaring inflation that caused so much suffering to the German people after the First World War. In "Sladek," we see how social conditions can lead people to desperate action and violence, opening the road for dictators and fascists. Written just as the Nazis[...]

Written in exile while in flight from the Nazis, this dark, bizarre evocation of everyday life under fascism is available for the first time in thirty years.
An unnamed narrator in an unnamed country is a schoolteacher with "a safe job with a pension at the end of it." But, when he reprimands a[...]