Ines Burdow: "the Subject Speaks"

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Heinrich Mann's bitterly evil-secturing novel "Der Untertan", completed at the beginning of the First World War, was a prophetic work on co-runningism, nationalism and conformism, which was only to gain relevance in later German history. The protagonist, Diederich Hessling, is a power-hungry opportunist who tyrannizes himself to the authority and weaker.