A Life in the Making

Franz Michael Felder author David Henry Wilson translator

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Pushkin Press

Published:28th Jan '21

£12.99

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Over the 29 years of his short life, Franz Michael Felder worked with furious productivity to better himself and the lives of those around him. From his humble origins in the Austrian village of Schoppernau, he went on to found workers' cooperatives, a political party and even a public library in his own home, while also writing many literary works. A Life in the Making is both the culmination of this extraordinary career and a chronicle of its development. It is a story of early hardship and fortitude, of Felder's relentless zeal for learning and his lifelong effort to reconcile his own expanding horizons with the enforced confines of the community he was born to. Unfolding in prose of limpid beauty, A Life in the Making becomes a deeply moving tribute to Felder's wife Nanni, and to his enduring belief in the possibility of a better world.

"One of the masterpieces of 19th-century German literature." -- Polis 

"Exhumed from oblivion… blessed with a strange power… The 21st-century reader will never forget this friend from Schoppernau." -- Le Matricule de Anges 

ISBN: 9781782276852

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352 pages