About the book: 1987 / Alfred Andersch (1914 - 1980) occupies a prominent place among those German writers 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, war, shows the doom of fascism, the social and moral story “Father of the Murderer” (1980), which can be called the literary, spiritual and political testament of the writer, and stories from different years.