James Cleugh
James Cleugh (1891–1969) was a poet, publisher, biographer, critic, and novelist, as well as a translator primarily from French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
James Cleugh (1891–1969) was a poet, publisher, biographer, critic, and novelist, as well as a translator primarily from French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Lion Feuchtwanger
Translation revised and introduced by Joshua Cohen
Translated from the German by James Cleugh
Notes by Richard J. Evans
“A long-forgotten masterpiece published in 1933 . . . A remnant of a world sick with foreboding, incredulity, creeping fear, and—this may feel most familiar to us today—the impossibility of gauging whether a society is really at the breaking point.” —Gal Beckerman, The Atlantic
Written in real time, as the Nazis consolidated their power over the winter of 1933, The Oppermanns captures the fall of Weimar Germany through the eyes of one bourgeois Jewish family, shocked and paralyzed by an ideology they cannot comprehend.