Shadow of Myself

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Hans, an esteemed surgeon, has just returned from the hellish battlefields of the First World War. But everything in his home feels alien - even his wife Grete. As he tries to regain a sense of normality, he is haunted by nightmarish visions and a profound sense of dissociation. Has the war turned him into someone else? Or has another man wormed his way into Hans's life?

Told in a feverish monologue, A Shadow of Myself is a vivid, hallucinatory immersion in an unsettled mind. First published in 1926 and rediscovered in Germany only last year, this lightning-bolt of a war classic is now appearing in English for the first time.

Book details and technical specifications

Format: Hardback
ISBN13: 9781805332268
Published: October 2025

Number of pages: 160
Width: 135 mm
Height: 216 mm
Depth: not specified

Publisher: Pushkin Press