The German Novel and the Affluent Society

‘A valuable and stimulating survey of the more important tendencies in the German novel as a whole.’

- The Listener

‘Mr Pascal has an imaginative intelligence which is rare in criticism, and one does not know whether to admire most the nicety of his detail or his grasp of the whole.’

- New Statesman

‘A sensitive and critical account of eight German novelists, beginning with Goethe and ending with Kafka and Thomas Mann...there is little writing on German literature up to the critical standard.’

- Cambridge Review