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.