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The Turbulent World of Franz Göll : An Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century.

Fritzsche, Peter.

The Turbulent World of Franz Göll : An Ordinary Berliner Writes the Twentieth Century. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (289 pages)

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. The Case of Franz Göll, Graphomaniac -- Chapter 2. Franz Göll's Multiple Selves -- Chapter 3. Physical Intimacies -- Chapter 4. The Amateur Scientist -- Chapter 5. Franz Göll Writes German History -- Chapter 6. Resolution without Redemption -- Notes -- Index.

Fritzsche traces twentieth-century history through the remarkable diaries of an ordinary Berliner. Franz Göll wrote of hungry winters during WWI, the Berlin bombing, rapes by Russian soldiers, shockwaves cast by Darwin, Freud, and Einstein, the flexing of U.S. superpower, and the strange lifestyles that marked Germany's transition to modernity.

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