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ERICH KASTNER (1899-1974) was born in Dresden. His first book of poems was published in 1928, as was the children's book Emil and the Detectives, which quickly achieved worldwide fame. Going to the Dogs appeared in 1931 and was followed by many other works for adults and children, including Lottie and Lisa, the basis for the popular Disney film The Parent Trap. RODNEY LIVINGSTONE is a professor emeritus in German Studies at the University of Southampton. In 2009 he was awarded the Ungar German Translation Prize of the American Translators' Association for his translation of Detlev Claussen's Theodor W. Adorno: One Last Genius. CYRUS BROOKS was a writer of detective stories and a translator of other books by Kastner as well as by Alfred Neumann, Leonhard Frank, and others.
Kastner (1899-1974) had a message to convey about the crumbling of Berlin's moral standards, and he delivered it successfully....but it is Fabian himself who explains things best when he comments ironically, 'We live in stirring times . . . and they get more stirring every day.'' - Publisher's Weekly <br> <br> Like his hero Fabian, Kastner was not a cynic as a saddened idealist; the two conditions look much the same, but the latter is more painful.... Fabian is a 'key novel' of the Weimar Republic in its last years. It is a notably efficient novel, with little of the metaphysical resonance of [Thomas Mann's] Doctor Faustus or that book's soul-searching, but offering instead a series of moral tableaux, rendered the cooler by the chapter titles, in the form of newspaper headings. - The Times Literary Supplement <br> <br> Graceful, vivid and distinguished...a little masterpiece of pathos and calamity. - Michael Sadleir<br> <br> Damned for its improper subject-matter, [ Going to the Dogs ] showed the crumbling Berlin of Christopher Isherwood's stories with something of Isherwood's sharp intelligence, but a far more tragic sense of implication. - The Times Literary Supplement <br> <br> I am a great admirer of Fabian [original title] and have read it at least twice. - Graham Greene<br>
