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Alfred Andersch

Cherries of Freedom

A Report

Published by Diogenes as Die Kirschen der Freiheit

Original Title: Die Kirschen der Freiheit

When the opportunity arose at last, in the idyllic Italian countryside on the day of the Normandy landings in 1944 and until he was safely taken POW by the advancing American army, Andersch found himself in a wilderness, a place of freedom. The cherries he plucked from a tree were the cherries of freedom, and the taste of them was one Andersch had not known for all of the years of the Third Reich: the taste of freedom.

Contemporary Literature
144 pages
1971

978-3-257-20001-0

Alfred

Andersch

Alfred Andersch (1914 – 1980) was sent to Dachau concentration camp in 1933. After deserting from the Wehrmacht in 1944, he became an American prisoner of war. After his return to Germany, he worked as a journalist and publicist, and was one of the founders of German radio. Andersch is one of Germany’s most important post-war authors, and his books are on school reading lists. Alfred Andersch died in Berzona / Ticino in 1980.

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Kirkus Reviews

»A small gem: still brilliantly alive and relevant.

Carolin McGinn
Times Literary Supplement, London

»›The Cherries of Freedom‹ is a unique testament to the pernicious boredom Fascism inflicted on a young man with heightened aesthetic sensibility, deprived of outlets for expression.«

Neal Wyatt
Publisher's Weekly, New York

»Andersch's rambling coming-of-age story is grim, acutely self-aware, and written entirely in the first person with the barest taste of dialogue. (...) How all this adds up to such a compelling book is a mystery - but it does.«

Kirkus Reviews

»A small gem: still brilliantly alive and relevant.«

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