TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hutchinson,Peter
TI  - Stefan Heym: the perpetual dissident 
SN  - 9780521404389
U1  - 833.914 23
PY  - 1992///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Heym, Stefan, 1913-
KW  - Authors, German -- 20th century -- Biography
KW  - Biography
KW  - German Authors
KW  - Authors, german
N2  - "Stefan Heym's uncompromising stance made him unpopular with a succession of political regimes. The National Socialists, the CIA, and the East German secret police all held files on him. He was Hitler's youngest literary exile; McCarthyism was to drive him from the USA; and even in what appeared his natural home - the first socialist state on German soil - he was to become the country's leading dissident. By continuing to compose in both English and German, however, he maintained an international reputation."--BOOK JACKET. "This study traces Heym's exciting career principally by reference to his novels, journalism, and political essays. It considers all stages of his writing, and thus gives more attention than has been common to his earliest, and practically unknown pieces of poetry, prose, and drama. All his novels are analysed, the major ones in depth, and there is particular focus on
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