Sansibar oder der letzte Grund [antikvár]

IntroductionAlfred Andersch and his worka lfred andersch was born on 4th February 1914 m Munich.After attending the local Gymnasium, he was apprenticed in the book trade. At eighteen he helped to organize youth groups of the Bavarian Communist Party, but after the banning of the Party in 1933 and its political collapse, and six months spent in the notorious Dachau concentration camp, he abandoned this political affiliation.He did not, however, as many other disappointed youths did at the time, turn to the National Socialist Party instead. On the contrary, when war came, he deserted from the army in June 1944, in Italy, and went as a prisoner of war to the United States.When he returned to Germany and began to write, his contributions to newspapers and periodicals very soon established him in the forefront of a literary movement which had to grapple with the problems of the aftermath of a terrible war, a war fought to the point of utter exhaustion and destruction. Many years of enforced silence, of complete separation from European tradition, despair at the sight of material and spiritual devastation, and the seeming hopelessness of attempting to rebuild the ruinsall these had to be overcome, and hope and purpose put in their place; attention had to be claimed from inert countrymen and from a hostile world which would listen neither to whining nor to hysterical demands.In 1946, Andersch became co-editor of a fortnightly political journal, Der Ruf. Passionately attempting to prove that this was7