Jakob Wassermann (Fürth, 1873 – Altaussee, 1934), a German narrator who has been compared, due to his moral intensity and the sharp characterization of his characters, with Dostoevsky, is the author of Caspar Hauser (Cliff, 2002), The little man with the geese (Cliff, 2001), The Jews of Zirndorf (1897), The Maurizius Affair (Cliff, 2018), and from the autobiography My Life as a German and a Jew (1933).