books by Stefan Heym

books by Stefan Heym

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Stefan Heym

Stefan Heym

Little, Brown, 1948

Unjustly Neglected W.W.II Novel
I can't believe such a novel is out of print. Sure, there are more innovative pieces of fiction on W.W.II: Heller's Catch-22 or Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five come to mind. Sure, it's maybe less stylistically flamboyant than Mailer's The Naked and the Dead or ...

The Architects (European Classics)

Stefan Heym

Northwestern University Press, 2006

A dud from a famous writer
Stefan Heym tried to make a soap opera out of Nikita Khrushchev's secret speech to the Communist Party congress. Heym's method was to serve up a socialist collective of East German architects who were working on a Soviet-backed project called the World Peace Road. They ...

The King David Report (European Classics)

Stefan Heym

Northwestern University Press, 1998

Truth will prevail
This is another masterpiece from Stefan Heym, the pseudonym for Helmut Flieg. The author is an East German/American Jewish writer, known for his controversial political standing, and as an advocate of "real socialism" he has been a victim of totalitarism and western ...

The Wandering Jew: A Novel

Stefan Heym

Henry Holt & Co, 1984

A Fable of moral issues
"The Wandering Jew" is based on an old legend which narrates the tragic life of Ahasverus, condemned to an ever-lasting life of misery, until the second coming of Christ, for having refused his master Reb Joshua (Jesus) a resting place when on his way to the ...