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The Death of Humanity
Loving, Pierre | July 9, 1930 issue

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The article gives information about the book "Flood," by Robert Neumann. It is one of the most searing novels that have of late come out of post-war Germany. While the novel opens in the period that just preceded the war it deals chiefly with the reconstruction epoch. The reiterated themes are impoverishment of the middle classes, general moral dissolution, unemployment, sex aberration and starvation. "Flood" is a natural enough outgrowth of German expressionism, which, it had seemed but yesterday, was dead or dying. It shares with the expressionist poets and playwrights at least one admirable quality, it is honestly and passionately written. It is also class-conscious.

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BOOKS & reading; FLOOD (Book); NEUMANN, Robert; MIDDLE class; UNEMPLOYMENT; GERMANY
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