Lyon Feichtwanger is a master of 20th-century German-language prose whose contributions to literature can only be compared to the creative legacy of Heinrich and Thomas Mann and Stefan Zweig. A writer whose pen was equally subject to the family saga, social drama and journalism Goya, or the Hard Way of Knowledge, is the pearl of Feichtwanger’s creative legacy. A novel that still has no equal among works dedicated to the life and work of Francisco Goya . A novel in which history and fiction are intricately and exquisitely intertwined, prose - and an impeccable stylization of the Spanish romance . A novel that tells not only about the unknown pages of Goya’s fate, but also reveals the secrets of his soul to the modern reader.