Talk:Hans Fallada

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An appreciaton of Hans fallada by Billy Childish.

Hans Fallada, real name Ditzen, borrowed his pen name from a horse from grims a fairy tail ‘the goose girl’. Falada the horse told the truth even after his head had been cut off. I came across my copy of The Drinker in a second hand bookshop in Portland, seven years back. It was a great find. I walk up the asiles of bookshops staring at the rows of dull books, desperate to find something that really connects. If the title sound interesting I pull the book out and scan the first page. That’s enough. Inverably I replace the book and walk out empty handed. . . I hardly ever come up with anything I can read.

Not so with fallada, I stood and read the first two pages smiling from ear to ear. Fallada tells of our trueist heart and fuck–ups, not of our cleverness and conquests. On this score he is closer to fante than Bukowski, who at his worst can come across like the anti-hero of some doidgy 40’s detective movie.

The drinker is fallader’s last but one novel. The story followes a busness man’s disent into hell. It is semi autobiographical, dealing with alcholisim rather than fallada’s real nemisis - morphine. I know this teritory, I am an ex acholic and my father was an alcholic bisnessman. Fallada paints it as it is, obseving all the bloated and painfull emotions. His achivment is managing to make us cear for this big blaming baby: the hero, as well as cringe at his egotistcal paronoia. Fallada is capable of real sentiment but is never scarcrin. Read him, it will do you good.

The Drinker is available now, as is his other master piece Little Man - What Now?, and there are other great books by fallada just waighting to be translated from the German. Demand to read them, lets make these books become available, co’s there’s not enough out there that touchs us on such a human level. Yes, Fallada is a great humanbeing, a great writer and champion of the little man. The drinker is vital and real. Let fallada have his place in our hearts. Buy a second copy for your alcholic father, husband or frend.

Tyrenius 16:55, 9 May 2006 (UTC)