Summary of Success
“Success: Three Years in the Life of a Province” tells the story of a museum director in Munich who is sentenced to three years in prison for exhibiting modernist paintings, while his friends try to secure his release.
Reasons to read SuccessÂ
Feuchtwanger’s novel “Success” explores how the Bavarian local government, years before the Nazi takeover, suppressed dissenting voices through court trials for indecency and perjury. The novel paints a vivid picture of Munich and Bavaria in the 1920s, covering events such as Hitler’s Beer Hall Putsch, the rise of violent armed right-wing factions, and hyperinflation. Often regarded as one of the earliest and greatest anti-Nazi novels in European literature, “Success” foreshadows how Munich and Bavaria became the breeding grounds for National Socialism. Lion Feuchtwanger was a best-selling German author and one of the earliest German opposers of Nazism. Other books by Feuchtwanger are “The Oppermans” and “Jud Süß”.
Setting: Munich (Germany)
Original title: Erfolg. Drei Jahre Geschichte einer Provinz
Year of publication: 1930
Nr of pages: 741
