Fabian
Kästner's novel of an unemployed advertising copywriter adrift in late-Weimar Berlin.
Why it was banned: Burned in the Nazi book burnings of May 1933; Kästner watched his own books burn in Berlin.
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At a glance
- Shelf status
- In print
- Banned by
- A government
- Banned in
- Germany
- Why it was banned
- Burned in the Nazi book burnings of May 1933; Kästner watched his own books burn in Berlin.
- Author
- Erich Kästner
- Topics
- German fiction
- First published
- 1931
- Shelf note
- In print; ban history from the public record.
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Library record on Open Library
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