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Title: Stefan Heym : The Perpetual Dissident by Peter Hutchinson, H. B. Nisbet, Martin Swales, Theodore J. Ziolkowski ISBN: 0-521-40438-X Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 09 July, 1992 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $80.00

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Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)

Rating: 5
Summary: About an eternal dissenter
Comment: This book comes along rather cautiously and quite drily. It is a work of scholarship, not one for the huge audiences. For me, having read most of Stefan Heym's novels and essays in German, (not really realizing that he wrote all of his books in English first) it was a surprise to me to learn that a book about him should be published in English.

Well, now it is, and it is a work well worth mentioning. The author, Peter Hutchinson, covers all the aspects worth knowing about Stefan Heym, connects Heym's life to his writings, adds reality to Heym's relations to democracy, the Nazis (and the pre-Nazis), the workers' movement, Communism, Stalinism, the US military, the two Germanies.

Heym was not the one to compromize. He had his ideals, and he followed them. Even after the re-unification of Germany in 1889 he asked his questions.

Peter Hutchinson managed to describe Heym's life, always connecting it to Heym's works, making his book a source of information about German-German relationship.

Well worth reading. For scholars of Heym: the bibliography is a real treasure.