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This paper examines the decisive importance which the work of Switzerland's only – albeit now completely forgotten – Nobel Prize winner for Literature had on the development of Swiss prose in the 20th century, and all this without receiving any critical attention whatsoever. The article will also try to give an answer to one of the most frequently asked questions: why such a prestigious award was granted to an author whose name has not managed to travel beyond the borders of Switzerland or the limits of his lifetime.
This paper deals with the image of Spain and how it is misrepresented in the German historical narratives written during the exile period. This misrepresentation is due on the one hand to the writers' lack of knowledge of the historical context in which their works were set and on the other hand to the individual motivation of the authors themselves. Through an examination of the two novels which Lion Feuchtwanger set in Spain, "Die Jüdin von Toledo" and "Goya", this article will try to analyse how in both cases the Spanish context offered the author the perfect frame to build the plot and the scenes and relate it to the historical moment Germany was experiencing. Furthermore, literary images and motifs will also be taken into consideration in order to prove how the reality of Spain in two very particular moments of its history was distorted in both novels.