Only recently available for the first time in English, Panorama is the newly rediscovered first novel of H. G. Adler, a modernist master whose work has been compared to that of Kafka, Joyce, and Solzhenitsyn. A brilliant epic told in ten distinct vignettes, Panorama is a portrait of a place and people soon to be destroyed, as seen through the eyes of the young Josef Kramer. It moves from the pastoral World War I-era Bohemia of Josef's youth, to a German boarding school full of creeping prejudice, through an infamous extermination camp, and finally to Josef's self-imposed exile abroad, achieving veracity and power through a stream-of-consciousness style reminiscent of our greatest modern masters. The author of six novels as well as the monumental account of his experiences in a Nazi labor camp, Theresienstadt 1941-1945, H. G. Adler is an essential author with unique historical importance. Panorama is lasting evidence of both the torment of his life and the triumph of his gifts.
Über den Autor H. G. Adler
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H. G. ADLER und HERMANN LANGBEIN waren in Auschwitz inhaftiert und gehörten später dem Internationalen Auschwitz Komitee an. H. G. Adler, geboren 1910, wurde 1985 mit dem Bundesverdienstkreuz ausgezeichnet. Er verstarb 1988 in London. Hermann Langbein, geboren 1912, hatte große Bedeutung für das Zustandekommen und den Verlauf des ersten Frankfurter Auschwitz-Prozesses. Er verstarb 1995 in Wien.
