About the book: 2023 / "Success. Three Years from the History of One Province is the first novel in the Waiting Room trilogy, first published in 1930. Working on the novel over the previous three years, Feuchtwanger creates a comprehensive panorama of life in Bavaria, where in the 20s of the 20th century a political force was rapidly gaining influence, which very soon was destined not only to become dominant in Germany, but also to dramatically influence the fate of the whole world . Feuchtwanger's fictitious trial of art critic Martin Kruger, with which the novel begins, becomes in it a point of no return, a demonstration of the powerlessness of the current government against the challenges of modernity, a catalyst for the popularity of the energetic ideology of true patriots and the future success of nationalists with an authoritative leader at the head... Prophetically interpreting the events taking place in the political scene of his native Bavaria, as tragic, Feuchtwanger was forced to leave Munich and began writing “Success” already in Berlin. With the National Socialists coming to power, his books were included in the list of those to be burned, and on August 25, 1933, the writer was deprived of German citizenship.