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Jakob Wassermann

Born

in Fürth, Germany

March 10, 1873

Died

January 01, 1934

Genre

Fiction, Poetry

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Jakob Wassermann (1873 – 1934) was a German writer and novelist of Jewish descent.

Born in Fürth, he was the son of a shopkeeper and lost his mother at an early age. He showed literary interest early and published various pieces in small newspapers. Because his father was reluctant to support his literary ambitions, he began a short-lived apprenticeship with a businessman in Vienna after graduation.

He completed his military service in Nuremberg. Afterward, he stayed in southern Germany and in Switzerland. In 1894 he moved to Munich. Here he worked as a secretary and later as a copy editor at the paper Simplicissimus. Around this time he also became acquainted with other writers Rainer Maria Rilke, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Thomas Mann.
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	Das Gold von Caxamalca 3.40 avg rating — 383 ratings — published 1923 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Caspar Hauser by Jakob Wassermann, Caroline Newton (Translator) 3.67 avg rating — 287 ratings — published 1908 — 168 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Maurizius Case 4.05 avg rating — 247 ratings — published 1928 — 102 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	My Marriage (New York Review Books Classics) by Jakob Wassermann, Michael Hofmann (Introduction) 3.48 avg rating — 199 ratings — published 1932 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Golowin 3.78 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 1920 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mein Weg als Deutscher und Jude 3.52 avg rating — 40 ratings — published 1921 — 94 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Etzel Andergast 4.12 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1931 — 44 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	El hombrecillo de los gansos by Jakob Wassermann, José Vivar (Translator) 4.06 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 1915 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Doña Juana de Castilla 3.62 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 1906 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Columbus: Don Quixote of the Seas 3.67 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1930 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The way individuals live together. The truth of each individual is only the truth of his own narrow perspective. The entirety of mankind and of human qualities is always seen through a prisim, where its colours are broken. Observation is so utterly different from experinnce; there is no hope of fusing their contardictions, as the I and the not-I have been foes from the world's beginning.”
― Jakob Wassermann, My First Wife

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“Von gesellschaftlicher Annäherung konnte nicht die Rede sein, menschliche Qualität wurde nicht einmal erwogen, Geist oder auch nur jede originelle Form der Äußerung erweckte sofort Argwohn, Beförderung über eine zugestandene Grenze hinaus kam nicht in Frage, alles, weil die bürgerliche Legitimation unter der Rubrik Glaubensbekenntnis die Bezeichnung Jude trug. Aber”
― Jakob Wassermann, Mein Weg als Deutscher und Jude

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“Sicherlich spürte der Gefangene, spürte es schmerzlich, was die lüstern auf ihn gerichteten Blicke begehrten, und der Wunsch, ihnen zu willfahren, erzeugte möglicherweise die erste erhellende Dämmerung, welche ihm selbst die Vergangenheit langsam begreiflich machte, so daß er in beunruhigter Brust nach dem Gewesenen tastete, ein Gewesenes erst fühlte und die Gegenwart damit verband, im tiefsten schaudernd an der Zeit messen lernte, was sie verändernd mit ihm getan, und was er sah, mit dem verglich, was er ehedem gesehen.”
― Jakob Wassermann, Caspar Hauser oder Die Trägheit des Herzens

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