Factual account of the happiness of being a morphinist

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A factual report on the happiness of being a morphinist is a collection of short stories by the German writer Hans Fallada , which was first published posthumously under this title in 2005. The book consists of eight individual stories, some of them strongly autobiographical, as well as an interpretive appendix by the editor Günter Caspar . Caspar published all of the text pieces from Fallada's estate as early as 1997 in the Aufbau Verlag under the title Three Years No Man. Experienced, experienced, invented. Both stories, the eponymous factual report and Three Years No Man , are included in the later version. The order of the eight texts is also identical. They deal primarily with the issues of addiction and family.

General

The texts compiled from Fallada's estate have no context in terms of content. Among these independent stories, the factual report and Three Years No One have the clearest autobiographical traits. The former thematizes Hans Fallada's early phase of morphine addiction, the latter alcoholism and prison sentences.

The text Unterprima Totleben is a fragment of a novel planned by Fallada about a group of schoolchildren on the eve of the First World War , which, however, was not finished. The fragment breaks off in the middle of the sentence. The remaining five texts come from a manuscript that Fallada wrote while imprisoned in 1944. The complete novel The Drinker also belongs to this manuscript .

content

  • Factual account of the happiness of being a morphinist
  • No one for three years
  • Unterprima Totleben
  • The little Jü-Jü and the big Jü-Jü
  • The story of the big and the little mosquito
  • The child idiot
  • Swenda, a dream torso or my worries
  • I am looking for the father

literature

  • Hans Fallada: factual report on the happiness of being a morphinist. 1st edition. Structure paperback, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-7466-2790-8 .
  • Hans Fallada: No one for three years. Experienced, experienced, invented: stories from the estate, 1929-1944. Construction Verlag, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-351-03202-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalog of works at openlibrary.org , accessed on November 17, 2011.
  2. ↑ a b Hans Fallada: factual report on the happiness of being a morphinist . Structure TB, Berlin 2011, p. 2, 150ff.