In his book, Ödön von Horváth attacks the National Socialist efforts to discredit any kind of superhuman authority, any moral authority and train a youth which solely believes in the orders of a (human) leader. According to the novel, a “youth without God”, as the literal translation reads, is terrible and capable of any dreadful act. Youth Without God:IntroductionbyChristopher Hampton. Introduction. Ödön von Horváth’s novel Jugend Ohne Gott (Youth Without God) was the indirect cause of his extravagantly bizarre death. Essentially a man of the theatre, Horváth had no doubt grown dispirited at the fact that very few of the nine plays he had written since the advent of the Nazi government in had reached the stage; Estimated Reading Time: 6 mins. This last book by Ödön von Horváth, one of the 20th-century’s great but forgotten writers, is a dark fable about guilt, fate, and the individual conscience. An unnamed narrator in an unnamed country is a schoolteacher with “a safe job with a pension at the end of it.”.
This rape of the land and insanity of the people are also reflected in Ödön von Horváth's Youth Without God. Written in , this novel reflects Horváth's fears of what his own country is becoming through an examination of what about a society makes something like the the Third Reich possible. Youth Without God. ODON VON HORVATH; This last book by Ödön von Horváth, one of the 20th-century's great but forgotten writers, is a dark fable about guilt, fate, and the individual conscience. An unnamed narrator in an unnamed country is a schoolteacher with "a safe job with a pension at the end of it." But, when he reprimands a. This last book by Ödön von Horváth, one of the 20th-century's great but forgotten writers, is a dark fable about guilt, fate, and the individual conscience. An unnamed narrator in an unnamed country is a schoolteacher with "a safe job with a pension at the end of it." Youth Without God portrays a world of individual ruthlessness.
A prolific playwright, Ödön von Horváth wrote his first novel Youth Without God in , a year before his death. He remained in Germany for a few years after the Nazis gained power, but was a fierce anti-Nazi. Von Horváth had been involved in street fights with the fascists and at various times was in critical dialogue with the German Communist Party (KPD). Youth is never without religion, which it inherits from its parents, and therefore youth is never without God. Religion is strongest in youth, for whom the correcting of injustice is of obsessive concern since youth feels no other real responsibilities except obtaining justice for itself. Alex Waldmann as the Teacher in Youth Without God. Photograph: Tristram Kenton/the Guardian. Coronet theatre, London. Christopher Hampton’s disturbing adaptation of Ödön von Horváth’s
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