The volcano
The volcano. Novel among Emigrants is a novel by Klaus Mann published in 1939 by Querido Verlag , Amsterdam . It deals with the fate of German political emigrants after the Nazis came to power . Along with Anna Seghers ' The Seventh Cross, it is considered one of the most important exile novels .
Klaus Mann had started work on the largely autobiographical novel in autumn 1937 and completed it in spring 1939. It was published just a few weeks before the outbreak of World War II . In his autobiography The Turning Point , he describes it as his best novel.
content
The novel is a network of plot and characters made up of different emigrants. Its settings are Paris, Amsterdam, Prague, Switzerland and the USA. The people are refugee communists, resistance fighters, Jewish intellectuals, artists and exiled upper class whose fate is interwoven in different storylines.
literature
- Klaus Mann: The volcano, novel among emigrants , Aufbau-Verlag, Berlin and Weimar 1969
- Klaus Mann: The volcano. Roman among emigrants (= Rororo 22591). With an afterword by Michael Töteberg . Revised and expanded new edition, 3rd edition. Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2004, ISBN 3-499-22591-3 .
- Klaus Mann: The turning point. A life report (= Rororo 24409). Extended new edition. Edited with text variants and drafts in the appendix and with an afterword by Fredric Kroll . Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek near Hamburg 2006, ISBN 3-499-24409-8 .
filming
- 1999: The volcano , film adaptation by Ottokar Runze with Nina Hoss .
