However, no of how diligently he labored, the mound of tasks before him could never be removed completely (... ). The little scribe became almost depressed over this, and when he looked into his counterpart's serious, gray face, in which the file dust of many years appeared to have settled - when he vividly imagined himself sitting there similarly serious in ten or twenty years, with nothing else on his mind but the race between the mountain of paper and the pen - he wished he could tear the hat off the nail and run out into the wide world.

Biography
Rudolf Ditzen, pseudonym Hans Fallada, was born in Greifswald in 1893, the son of a high-ranking judicial officer. He attended a humanistic high school but did not graduate and served an agricultural apprenticeship. Between 1915 and 1925, he worked as a farm laborer, court inspector, and bookkeeper; between 1928 and 1930, he worked as an address clerk, advertisement collector, and publishing house employee. Since 1920, when he published his debut novel 'Der junge Goedeschal,' he has worked as an independent writer. Fallada achieved worldwide fame with the frequently translated story 'Kleiner Mann was nun? (1932). He lived in seclusion as a 'undesirable author' on his six-acre estate in Mecklenburg during the fascist era. He relocated to Berlin in 1945 and died there in 1947.

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