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Mandel's works have sold more than 105 million books. From 2004 to 2012 his website promoted his books as mostly auto-biographical based on his participation in the war on the [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] side with parts based on stories from his comrades and parts free fantasy. In total Mandel published 14 novels which have been translated into 25 languages. Although he is arguably one of the bestselling Yonderian authors, Yonderian public libraries do not stock his books, and a 2011 opinion piece on literature in the ''[[Collinebourg Gazette]]'' described Mandel as a hack fraud and his debut novel as a poor jigsaw puzzle with its characters plagiarized from other novels. By contrast, readers of Mandel's books say that by graphically portraying war as violent and hopeless in such manner, wherein people are killed by chance or with very little reason and occasional pleasant events and peaceful meetings are brutally cut short, the books contain an anti-war message. | Mandel's works have sold more than 105 million books. From 2004 to 2012 his website promoted his books as mostly auto-biographical based on his participation in the war on the [[Burgundie|Burgoignesc]] side with parts based on stories from his comrades and parts free fantasy. In total Mandel published 14 novels which have been translated into 25 languages. Although he is arguably one of the bestselling Yonderian authors, Yonderian public libraries do not stock his books, and a 2011 opinion piece on literature in the ''[[Collinebourg Gazette]]'' described Mandel as a hack fraud and his debut novel as a poor jigsaw puzzle with its characters plagiarized from other novels. By contrast, readers of Mandel's books say that by graphically portraying war as violent and hopeless in such manner, wherein people are killed by chance or with very little reason and occasional pleasant events and peaceful meetings are brutally cut short, the books contain an anti-war message. | ||
Viktor Rührstein died in his sleep on September 21st, 1995, in his home in [[Iscasta]], [[Caphiria]], where he had lived since | Viktor Rührstein died in his sleep on September 21st, 1995, in his home in [[Iscasta]], [[Caphiria]], where he had lived since 1963. He was survived by his wife Viktoria Rührstein (née Gleichtahl) (1931-2016) and three sons. | ||
[[Category:Second Great War]] | [[Category:Second Great War]] | ||