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Anselm Kristlein trilogy
Three novels by the German writer Martin Walser From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Anselm Kristlein trilogy (German: Anselm-Kristlein-Trilogie) is three novels by the German writer Martin Walser. The trilogy consists of the novels Halbzeit (1960), The Unicorn (German: Das Einhorn) (1966, English 1971) and Der Sturz (1973), with a combined length of over 1500 pages.[1]
The largely autobiographical novels centre on Anselm Kristlein as he makes a career as a salesman, advertising worker and eventually author.[2] They concern life and consciousness in post-war West Germany.[1] Kristlein appears as a detached dreamer but not an outsider, because no such thing can exist in the way the novels portray society akin to natural history.[3]
The trilogy has been described as Walser's magnum opus.[1] The Unicorn was the basis for the 1978 film The Unicorn.[4]
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