DER KANAL. ROMAN. Leipzig: Ernst Keils Nachfolger (August Scherl) G.m.b.H., [1923]. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-195 [196: ads], original pictorial tan boards printed in red and black with green cloth shelf back stamped in red and black, top edge stained black, black endpapers. First edition. A wealthy German industrialist forms a company to construct a canal between the North Sea and the Adriatic through the Alps and the Apennines. The five-year giant construction project claims many lives: 8,000 of the 100,000 workers are killed and the project manager sinks into insanity. Derivative of Bernhard Kellermann's DER TUNNEL (1913), which Supra says is the better work utilizing this theme. Brandt, Der deutsche Zukunftsroman 1918-1945, p. 367. Lexikon 2, pp. 218-9. Nagl, p. 259. Bloch (2002) 2575. A very good copy. (#139582).
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