Transit by Anna Seghers

Transit

Anna Seghers with Heinrich Böll, Margot Bettauer Dembo, Peter Conrad

272 pages • first pub 1944 (editions)

fiction classics informative reflective sad slow-paced

Description

Anna Seghers’s Transit is an existential, political, literary thriller that explores the agonies of boredom, the vitality of storytelling, and the plight of the exile with extraordinary compassion and insight.      Having escaped from a Nazi conce...

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Moods

reflective 72%
challenging 44%
sad 44%
emotional 40%
informative 32%
tense 32%
dark 24%
adventurous 20%
hopeful 20%
funny 8%
inspiring 8%
mysterious 8%

Pace

slow 55%
medium 44%

Plot- or character-driven?

Character: 45% | A mix: 36% | Plot: 13% | N/A: 4%

Strong character development?

Yes: 40% | No: 35% | It's complicated: 25%

Loveable characters?

No: 57% | It's complicated: 31% | Yes: 10%

Diverse cast of characters?

No: 44% | It's complicated: 22% | Yes: 22% | N/A: 11%

Flaws of characters a main focus?

Yes: 52% | It's complicated: 36% | N/A: 5% | No: 5%

Average rating

3.57

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