The person who lied to tell the truth. The life and work of Wolfgang Keppen

Book E.A. Keshevsky, known for his works on the history of German literature of the twentieth century, is devoted to the study of the life and work of the classic of the literature of Germany Wolfgang Köppen (1906-1996), which is one of the few German writers, whose works to this day remain the subject of fierce discussions. The author examines in detail the connection of the specifics of the unusual aesthetics of novels, travel notes and essays V. Köppen, inspired by the poetics of modernism of the 1930s, with the urgent problem of the post-war development of Germany, reveals the mechanics of the writer"s creative penetration into the essence of the political and social problems of time, analyzes the social and political situation , which developed around V. Köppen because of his sharp and offensive statements to the German inhabitants and the traditional German nationalist worldview, which led to the prolonged creative crisis of the writer. The book was written with the involvement of archival materials and the abundant correspondence of the writer with his wife, publishers, critics and friends, which allows us to judge the difficult personal and writer"s fate of V. Köppen