ZWEIG - THE DISPUTE OVER SERGEANT GRISHA. Edition.1, leather

ZWEIG Arnold

DISPUTE OVER SERGEANT GRISHA

Warsaw 1930, Rój, pp. 506, [4]; format 12.5x18.5 cm

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Issue 1.

Arnold Zweig - Polish-born writer of Jewish descent, fought in World War I and became a staunch pacifist. Zweig's best-known works are the novels in the series The Great White Man's War . The dispute over Sergeant Grisha is a novel that is part of this series.

"The novel "The Dispute over Sergeant Grisha" is the middle part of a triptych under the title "Transition Trilogy" . It will be preceded as to time and action by the novel "Raising at Verdun" (Bertin), and will be followed by "The Establishment of the King" (Winfried). "The dispute over Sergeant Grisha, the content of which is not fictionalized, was written in the first outline in 1916, in 1921 it was reworked into a drama, and in 1926 it was written as a novel."

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