Reveals how East German writers' engagement with the rapidly changing built environment from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s constitutes an untold story about the emergence of literary experimentation in the post-War period. Thanks to Curtis Swope's thoughtful research into previously unexplored territories, this book for the first time illuminates the architectural spaces that frame socialist approaches to modernity and East German literature-thus extending a spatial trajectory in modern literature that reaches back to Dickens, Balzac, and Tolstoy.