Report on Bruno

The manuscript of a novel on which Joseph Breitbach worked for so many years and which he finished in 1937, entitled "Clemens", was lost during the Second World War. Thomas Mann, who had read the first chapter, was so impressed with it that he published it in his magazine "Mass und Wert" and thus made it possible for it to be reissued in German and in French. The loss so deeply affected Breitbach that he did not resume his literary activities until many years later. "Report on Bruno" is Breitbach's first novel since "Clemens".