''A Little Yes and a Big No'' (german: Ein kleines Ja und ein großes Nein, links=no) is the 1946 autobiography of German artist

George Grosz George Grosz (; born Georg Ehrenfried Groß; July 26, 1893 – July 6, 1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objec ...

. The first edition was published by

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in New York City, and was translated by Lola Sachs Dorin. In 1982 a new translation by

Arnold Pomerans Arnold Julius Pomerans (27 April 1920 – 30 May 2005) was a German-born British translator. Arnold Pomerans was born in Königsberg, Germany on 27 April 1920 to a Jewish family. Because of growing antisemitism in Germany the family left for ...

of the 1955 German edition was published by

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as ''The Autobiography of George Grosz: A Small Yes and a Big No''. In 1998, the

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published a 1955 translation of Grosz's text by Nora Hodges, entitled ''George Grosz: An Autobiography''. The 1998 edition includes the chapter "Russia in 1922" which did not appear in the 1946 edition. In this chapter, Grosz recounts his five-month tour of Soviet Russia's most famine-stricken areas. Barbara McCloskey writes in the foreword to the 1998 edition: "Grosz rejects any glimmer of the revolutionary idealism that we might have expected from a young, radicalized artist. Gloom and suspicion, not optimism and hope, define his vision of the new Soviet regime."

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