About the book: 1987 / Alfred Andersch (1914 - 1980) occupies a prominent place among those writers of the Federal Republic of Germany for whom overcoming the past, eradicating Nazism has always been the main social and creative task. The volume of his selected works includes the last novel “Winterspelt”, which expresses an objective view of history, the war, shows the doom of fascism, social and moral - the story “Father of the Killer, (1980), which can be called the literary, spiritual and political testament of the writer , and stories from different years.