The Lighthouse

Name: The Lighthouse
Author: Siegfried Lenz

by Siegfried Lenz

Novel of lighthouse keeper's isolation and moral reckoning

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Siegfried Lenz

German novelist and one of the most widely read authors in postwar German literature. The German Lesson is his masterpiece, an examination of German obedience and the suppression of art under National Socialism.

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