First recognized as an important writer in 1951, Milo Dor continues to occupy a prominent position in Austrian and German intellectual circles. He is one of those rare examples of an author who does not write in his native language; he was in his twenties when he abandoned his native Serbo-Croatian for German. Also, his participation in the resistance against the Nazis is unusual among German and Austrian writers; originally active in communist resistance groups in Yugoslavia, he was ostracized by his former friends when he began to question their methods and ultimate intentions. His anti-Nazi activities did not cease; he spent part of the war in prisons and detention camps, where he was subjected to extended periods of torture. His autobiographical novel Tote auf Urlaub (1952; translated as Dead Men on Leave, 1962) was widely hailed as the personal and political confession of a lost generation of central European leftists...