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The "Selected Novels" library at the "Narodna Kultura" publishing house is entering its fifth anniversary. This period is quite sufficient to assess its achievements and weaknesses to date, to point out some shortcomings in the selection of contemporary novels. It is hardly necessary to emphasize how useful an undertaking it has proved to be. The best evidence of this is the great interest of readers in it. It could have been born and realized in the new and serene atmosphere after the 20th Congress of the CPSU, after which the cult barriers and stifling dogmas collapsed, in an environment of an objective view of the artistic values ​​of world literature. Through it, our reader is connected to everything good in literature, created by various peoples around the world.

Few are left of those writers who forty or fifty years ago took a direct part in the creation of a great critical-realist literature in Germany. More of the great writers are now deceased - we mourn the loss of Heinrich and Thomas Mann, Feuchtwanger, Döblin, Hesse, Leonhard Frank, and also Brecht, Becher and Wolf. Born in 1887 - the above-mentioned writers were either born shortly before him or were his contemporaries - Arnold Zweig knew them all and accompanied them in their aspirations; a ray of the radiance of this great age of art and enlightenment falls on him. He is one of its last torchbearers, a writer in whom spiritual breadth, traditionalism and a connection with the future are happily combined.