About the book: 1990 / The first volume of the Collected Works of the famous German writer Hans Fallada (1893–1947) includes two novels: “Little man, what’s next?” (1932) and “Who has ever taken a sip of prison gruel...” (1934). These novels are dedicated to the fate of the German petty bourgeoisie, the urban “bottom”. In them, the author talks about the misadventures of “little” people in Germany on the eve of the collapse of bourgeois democracy and the establishment of a fascist dictatorship in the country.