自六十年代以来,民主德国的文学取得了不容忽视的成就,并且越来越引起西方批评界的注意。为了使读者了解这个国家文学上的新成就,本刊在这一期选登了四个短篇,以后还将陆续介绍。安娜·西格斯(Anna Seghers,1900—)是我国读者非常熟悉的老作家,五十年代初曾来我国访问。西格斯具有世界声誉,被称为民主德国文学的奠基人和代表者之一。她一生写过大量的文学作品,有小说、戏剧、诗歌和文学评论等。她经历了二十世纪最重大 Since the 1960s, the literature of democratic Germany has made remarkable achievements and has drawn more and more attention from critics in the West. In order to make readers understand the new achievements in this country’s literature, this magazine has published four short stories and will be introduced later. Anna Seghers (1900-), an old writer very familiar to our readers, visited China in the early 1950s. Siegus has a worldwide reputation as one of the founders and representatives of the German literature of democracy. She has written a large number of literary works throughout her life, including fiction, drama, poetry and literary criticism. She experienced the most important of the twentieth century