Nachfeier

by Franz Hessel

German

128 pages, Perfect Paperback

Published January 1, 1988

About the author

Franz Hessel, Berlin-born son of a Jewish banking family, was a writer and translator, translating works by Casanova, Stendhal, and Balzac, as well as collaborating with Walter Benjamin on a translation of Proust's "À la recherche du temps perdu" into German. Hessel died in early 1941, shortly after his release from an internment camp.