A Part of Myself"The chaotic times of the first sixty years of this century are marvelously mirrored in this engrossing biography. Carl Zuckmayer, the son of a Rhenish vintner and his Jewish wife, is endowed by nature with a contagious zest for life. These qualities carried him through the crests and troughs of a period that saw Germany lost the First World War, change from monarchy to democracy, from democracy to dictatorship, and back to democracy again. War, revolution, inflation, a cultural explosion in the twenties and beginning of the thirties, followed by an extinction of a free artistic life under Hitler, expropriation and exile, emigration to America, and a triumphant return to a liberated Europe, form the colorful substance of these memoirs"--Front jacket flap. |
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