num_pages: 178
description: Originally published in German in 1931 and in an expurgated English translation in 1932, this novel is the tale of Jacob Fabian, a Berlin advertising copywriter doomed in the context of economic, ethical, and political collapse by his characteristic mixture of detachment and decency. Fabian is a middle-of-the-road liberal, an Enlightenment rationalist, a believer that the public condition reflects prevailing private moralities, and a skeptic toward all ideological nostrums. Richly detailed and vividly plotted, Fabian remains an unparalleled personalization of the collapse of the Weimar Republic.This new edition restores the deleted sections considered too explicit for the original publication. It also includes Kastner's epilogue, which had been rejected by the original publisher, the preface added by the author to the 1952 German reissue, and an informative foreword by the scholar Rodney Livingstone.
language: English
title: Fabian: The Story of a Moralist
titlecomplete: Fabian: The Story of a Moralist (European Classics)
characters: Fabian, Labude
genres: Germany, 20th Century, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Novels, School, Literature, German Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 6381
places: Germany, Berlin, Dresden
publisher: Northwestern Univ Pr