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Address Unknown

Fiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1938

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Address Unknown is an epistolary novel. How does the exchange of letters frame the story of Max and Martin’s friendship?

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In what ways does Address Unknown chart the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930s? How do the letters anchor the reader in the time period and its events?

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How does Martin’s antisemitism grow throughout the novel? To what extent can Martin be said to have always been antisemitic?

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