Ein möglichst intensives Leben

"Feuchtwanger's life as a dramatic novel of those years." Volker Weidermann, Der Spiegel. Lion Feuchtwanger's diaries, kept in secret, were only discovered late in his secretary's apartment. Here he had probably hidden them during the McCarthy era because of their explosive nature. The diarist proved to be an unreservedly open chronicler of his own eventful life as well as of central chapters of German history. Feuchtwanger the man has never before been presented in such a multi-layered way, with all his idiosyncrasies, weaknesses and unique strengths. "A panorama of truly world-historical proportions - wherever you start, you read your way through it." Tobias Döring, FAZ.