biography
pronunciation:
[kroyder]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1903–72)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Zeitz, EC Germany. He began as a journalist, working for the Frankfurter Zeitung and later for the periodical Simplicissimus. His Surrealistic style was influenced by James Joyce and William Faulkner, and his major work is the novel Die Unauffindbaren (1948), in which he describes the flight into an anarchistic dreamworld in search of the meaning of human existence. He also wrote short stories, poetry, and literary criticism, and was awarded the Georg-Büchner-Preis in 1953. |
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