Der Untertan

aka The Underling

Man of Straw

Author

Heinrich Mann

Language

German

Year

1918

Country

Germany

Genre

Novel

modern europe

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Der Untertan is one of the best known novels of German author Heinrich Mann. The title character, Diederich Hessling, a dedicated 'Untertan' in the sense of a person subservient to a monarch or prince, is an immoral man who is meant to serve as an allegory of both the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II and German society of his time.