Kasack, Hermann
Entry updated 28 November 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1896-1966) German author of Der Stadt hinter dem Strom (1949; trans Peter De Mendelssohn as The City Beyond the River 1953), a tale whose setting – initially World War Two, and then a distant City where the protagonist is assigned the Kafka-esque task of serving as its official chronicler – seems Equipoisal with sf of the sort typical of "year zero" writing in Germany, but which eventually turns out to be a Posthumous Fantasy [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. In the end, the Amnesia of the dead overwhelms any possibility of writing a story of escape from this postWar Hell. [JC]
Hermann Robert Richard Eugen Kasack
born Potsdam, Germany: 24 July 1896
died Stuttgart, Germany: 10 January 1966
works
- Der Stadt hinter dem Strom (Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Bermann-Fischer Verlag, 1949) [hb/]
- The City Beyond the River (London: Longmans, Green, 1953) [trans by Peter De Mendelssohn of the above: hb/]
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