The Case of Sergeant Grischa

"The novel called 'The Case of Sergeant Grischa' is the central piece of a Triptych of which the collective title will be 'A Trilogy of the Transition.' It will be preceded chronologically and dramatically by the novel called 'Education Before Verdun' (Bertin); the novel called 'The Crowning of a King' (Winfried) will follow it. 'The Case of Sergeant Grischa,' the plot of which is founded on fact, was conceived in the year 1917, composed and written as a play in 1921, and as a novel in 1926-27."