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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve
True. It looked like the Kaleun died, but that's exactly how the scene played in the book, and, as you say, he survived for two sequels. Since the sequels apparently have never been released in English, can you or anyone tell how he handled the 'resurrection'?
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Hi
please keep in mind that "Das Boot" is a novel, even though a very realistic one.
The story has a fictional closed end and the two other books from Buchheim are not really sequels to "Das Boot", even though you can see it like a kind of trilogy.
The first one "Die Festung" is more autobiographic and describes the experiences Buchheim made during the later course of the war and shows Buchheims reception of the nazi regime. With himself sitting between the chairs of believing in the "Endsieg", personified through his friend- or comradeship to Lehmann-Willenbrock/"Der Alte" on the one side and his sympathy to the resistance, personified through his and Lehmann-Willenbrock´s, more or less common french girlfriend on the other side.
"Die Festung" ends with many open questions, which Buchheims partly deals with in his final book "Der Abschied".
This book is basically a travelogue of a sea journey from Hamburg to Durban in the late 70´s, the ship´s captain is again "Der Alte" and Buchheim has long talks with him, through which he wants to reflect their relationship in the past, during the war and their perception of the present.
Both books are quite clumsy to read, you won´t miss much i fyou don´t read them.
Cheers,
Michael