A Shadow of Myself

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.

© 2025 Pushkin Press (Ebook): 9781805332275

Translators: Simon Pare

Release date

Ebook: October 23, 2025