Traveler, you will come when in the spa …: Henry Belle

Politicians begin wars – and the boys go to death, inspired by cheap slogans about patriotism and a “special mission in history.” And the result is the ruined fate of the whole generation, forever burned by the flame of the “fatal forties” … Twenty -five stories of the great Henry Bell.
Twenty -five piercing episodes united by the theme of war – and this war is perceived much wider than the specific second world. In essence, for the writer, this massacre is nothing more than the continuation of countless armed conflicts, which is replete with world history. And the reason for this approach of Belll is in his deep conviction that the events of the XX century for the Germans of his generation are largely determined by the events of the distant past …

Author
Belle Henry
Translator
Utkin Alexander Lvovich
Publisher
AST, 2012
Series
Book for all times
Genre
Modern foreign prose