About the book: year / Lion Feuchtwanger wrote over ten historical novels and several plays, set in different eras and in different countries. Along with this, he created four novels on the themes of contemporary German reality - “Success”, “The Oppermann Family” (in the first editions - “The Oppenheim Family”), “Exile” and “The Lautensack Brothers”. The first three novels make up the “Waiting Room” cycle "; they are connected not by a common plot or characters, but rather by a commonality of problems: in each of them the forces of fascist reaction collide with the forces of progress, which Feuchtwanger embodies in educated, thinking people, humanist intellectuals.