A Shadow of Myself
Peter Flamm author Simon Pare translator Rachel Seiffert editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Pushkin Press
Publishing:8th Oct '26
£10.99
This title is due to be published on 8th October, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
A vivid, hallucinatory rediscovered classic about split identity in the wake of First World War trauma
Hans, an esteemed surgeon, has just returned from the hellish battlefields of the First World War. But everything in his home feels alien, even his wife Grete. As he tries to regain a sense of normality, he is haunted by nightmarish visions and a profound sense of dissociation. Has the war turned him into someone else? Or has another man wormed his way into Hans's life?
Told in a feverish monologue, A Shadow of Myself is a vivid, hallucinatory immersion in an unsettled mind. First published in 1926 and rediscovered in Germany only last year, this lightning-bolt of a war classic is now appearing in English for the first time.
Essential reading... Eerie... [Flamm's] portrait of a suffering veteran was radical... Cause not only for literary celebration, but also for historical reflection * Telegraph *
Unsettling... Creates a picture of a tormented mind, and evokes the profound dislocation felt by veterans returning home from a savage conflict * The Times *
Flamm's captivating style and inner monologue create a fascinating, intoxicating flow that does not lose force until the last page * Tagesspiegel *
A significant rediscovery * Welt am Sonntag *
Like a heavy, concentrated red wine, it lingers for an extremely long time * Deutschlandfunk Kultur *
ISBN: 9781805332282
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: unknown
160 pages