His writing is remarkable for its good-natured humor alternating with sardonic irony in a manner reminiscent of Heine. Kesten's many other works included biographies of Copernicus (1945 Copernicus and His World, 1946) and Casanova (1952), and various plays and essays. Die fremden Goetter (1949) portrays the return to Judaism of a father and daughter during the Hitler era. Spanish Fire, 1946), a historical novel which recreates the period of the Jewish expulsion from Spain and Koenig Philipp der Zweite (1938), which deals with Ferdinand and Isabella's successor on the Spanish throne.ĭie Kinder von Gernika (1939) was written under the impact of the Spanish Civil War and portrays the tragic history of the Basques. During his exile, Kesten completed Ferdinand und Isabella (1936 U.S. Glueckliche Menschen (1931) and Der Scharlatan (1932) both deal with life in Berlin. Kesten's first novel, Josef sucht die Freiheit (1927), was translated into seven languages. He lived in New York for several years, but after the collapse of Fascism in Italy made his home in Rome. He had to leave Germany in 1933 and was active in European refugee circles, but fled to the U.S.A. In 1927 Kesten became literary adviser to the Berlin publishing house of Kiepenheuer. Most of the links are for youtube(WATCH), the WATCH & DOWNLOAD links are for veehd and to download it or watch it just register for free and for torrents you need to have a torrent client.KESTEN, HERMANN (1900–1996), German novelist. Since all the rapidshare links are dead now, I removed them and put new ones(same goes for old youtube links).
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