Ödön von Horváth

Ödön von Horváth

Ödön von Horváth (1901-1938) was a writer in the German language of Hungarian origin. In the 1920s he lived in Germany and won the prestigious Kleist Prize. Before the rise of Hitler to power in 1933 - and his immediate appointment as "degenerate author" - he moved to Vienna, and with the Anschluss, to Paris, where he died by lightning: ironically, a death he had always said he feared . This novel completes the late recovery of the novelistic work by this author in Spanish, after Espasa-Calpe published Youth Without God and A Child of Our Time in 2001 and 2002 respectively.