Wilhelm Raabe
German author whose gloomy, ironic fiction set in provincial Germany anticipates the modernist crisis of meaning. Stopfkuchen and The Documents of the Birdsong are his finest works.
Works
- StopfkuchenReclusive intellectual confronts accusations from a childhood friend
- The Documents of the Birdsong
- Abu TelfanEastern adventurer's account of travels and spiritual transformation
- The Hunger PastorPoor seminary student's journey from poverty to spiritual purpose
- HorackerOutlaw on the run hides in woods and contemplates life