It's lucky that Hans Fallada's novel "Every Man Dies Alone" emerged from obscurity this year in its first English translation. Otherwise our image of the German resistance to Hitler might have been ...

Like Pinneberg, Hans Fallada wanted to live his life and largely ignore the political battles swirling around him. The enormous success of Little Man, What Now? provided him with enough money to leave ...

Shaer is a staff writer at the Christian Science Monitor. NEW YORK — The early years, before he was old enough to understand the extent of the destruction unfurling around him -- these are the ones ...

This 1988 biopic chronicling the last decade of German novelist Hans Fallada (Little Man, What Now?) falls prey to the chief difficulty of most movies about writers: how to render their imaginative ...

Reporting from New York — The early years, before he was old enough to understand the extent of the destruction unfurling around him -- these are the ones Ulrich Ditzen likes to remember. He was just ...

More than 60 years after his death, German author Hans Fallada last year made a literary splash in the U.S. with the publication of the English translation of his Every Man Dies Alone. The novel (my ...

Hans Fallada is the romantic nom de plume invented by a man who lived through some of the most difficult episodes in his country’s history and came out indifferently, neither a hero nor a villain.

LITTLE MAN, WHAT Now — Hans Fallada—Simon & Schuster ($2.50). There is not much plot to most men’s lives, and the ending is invariably “un-happy.” But few novelists attempt a complete picture of even ...

Hard though it is to define a literary classic, sometimes you read a book so finely wrought that you have no doubt about its status. Hans Fallada's "Iron Gustav," recently reissued as a Penguin Modern ...