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"Three Million Three" (1933) by Leonhard Frank is a social novel about unemployment during the Great Depression. It follows the fates of three German workers who wander around looking for work and escape from poverty.
Out of Three Million Three is a social-critical novel by the German writer Leonhard Frank (1882–1961), one of the most significant expressionist and left-wing authors of the Weimar Republic. The novel was written during the Great Depression (1929–1933), when there were several million unemployed people in Germany.
Through the fates of three workers from Würzburg, Frank depicts the hopelessness, humiliation, and despair of the poor. The three protagonists leave their hometown and wander (Germany, Berlin, and even across the ocean) in search of work, hoping that out of three million three will still manage to survive. The work is a powerful indictment of capitalist society, showing how the economic crisis destroys human dignity, families, and the hopes of individuals.
The style is typical of Frank – sharp, concise, with elements of expressionism and social realism, full of grotesque and melancholy. The novel is one of the author's most directly socially engaged books, along with works such as Der Mensch ist gut. In 1933, the Nazis banned and burned Frank's books, and he emigrated again.
In the Croatian context, the Binoza edition testifies to the interest in contemporary European social literature in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Today, this edition is a sought-after antiquarian rarity, especially copies with the original cover and in good condition. It represents an important document of the times of the Great Depression and one of the early translations of a significant German left-wing writer into the Croatian language.
One copy is available
- The cover is missing
