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Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Doblin (2018, Trade Paperback)
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Title: Berlin Alexanderplatz. Language: English. Number of Pages: 480. Weight: 1 lbs. Publication Date: 2018-03-06. Publisher: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNew York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.
ISBN-101681371995
ISBN-139781681371993
eBay Product ID (ePID)237771654
Product Key Features
Book TitleBerlin Alexanderplatz
Number of Pages480 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicPsychological, Crime, Literary, Political, Historical
Publication Year2018
IllustratorYes
GenreFiction
AuthorAlfred Doblin
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight15.4 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2017-046077
Dewey Edition23
Reviews"[A] major writer who grappled with the roots of darkness in our time...." --Ernst Pawel, The New York Times "His was an extraordinary mind." --Philip Ardagh, The Guardian "Without the futurist elements of Dblin's work from Wang Lun to Berlin Alexanderplatz , my prose is inconceivable.... He'll discomfort you, give you bad dreams. If you're satisfied with yourself, beware of Dblin." --Gnter Grass "I learned more about the essence of the epic from Dblin than from anyone else. His epic writing and even his theory about the epic strongly influenced my own dramatic art." --Bertolt Brecht "As we look back over the rich literary output of this great writer, as we look back over the long and fruitful life of this fighter and this friend of man, this perennial spring of spiritual life, we venture to ask: When will the gentlemen [ sic ] of the Nobel Prize jury discover him?" --Ludwig Marcuse, Books Abroad
Dewey Decimal833.912
SynopsisThe inspiration for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic film and that The Guardian named one of the "Top 100 Books of All Time," Berlin Alexanderplatz is considered one of the most important works of the Weimar Republic and twentieth century literature. Berlin Alexanderplatz , the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the twentieth century, gruesome, farcical, and appalling, word drunk, pitchdark. In Michael Hofmann's extraordinary new translation, Alfred D blin's masterpiece lives in English for the first time. As D blin writes in the opening pages: The subject of this book is the life of the former cement worker and haulier Franz Biberkopf in Berlin. As our story begins, he has just been released from prison, where he did time for some stupid stuff; now he is back in Berlin, determined to go straight. To begin with, he succeeds. But then, though doing all right for himself financially, he gets involved in a set-to with an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Three times the force attacks him and disrupts his scheme. The first time it comes at him with dishonesty and deception. Our man is able to get to his feet, he is still good to stand. Then it strikes him a low blow. He has trouble getting up from that, he is almost counted out. And finally it hits him with monstrous and extreme violence., The inspiration for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic film and that The Guardian named one of the "Top 100 Books of All Time," Berlin Alexanderplatz is considered one of the most important works of the Weimar Republic and twentieth century literature. Berlin Alexanderplatz , the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the twentieth century, gruesome, farcical, and appalling, word drunk, pitchdark. In Michael Hofmann's extraordinary new translation, Alfred Döblin's masterpiece lives in English for the first time. As Döblin writes in the opening pages: The subject of this book is the life of the former cement worker and haulier Franz Biberkopf in Berlin. As our story begins, he has just been released from prison, where he did time for some stupid stuff; now he is back in Berlin, determined to go straight. To begin with, he succeeds. But then, though doing all right for himself financially, he gets involved in a set-to with an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Three times the force attacks him and disrupts his scheme. The first time it comes at him with dishonesty and deception. Our man is able to get to his feet, he is still good to stand. Then it strikes him a low blow. He has trouble getting up from that, he is almost counted out. And finally it hits him with monstrous and extreme violence., The inspiration for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic film and that The Guardian named one of the "Top 100 Books of All Time," Berlin Alexanderplatz is considered one of the most important works of the Weimar Republic and twentieth century literature. Berlin Alexanderplatz , the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the twentieth century--gruesome, farcical, and appalling, word-drunk, pitch-dark. In Michael Hofmann's extraordinary new translation, Alfred Döblin's masterpiece lives in English for the first time. As Döblin writes in the opening pages: The subject of this book is the life of the former cement worker and haulier Franz Biberkopf in Berlin. As our story begins, he has just been released from prison, where he did time for some stupid stuff; now he is back in Berlin, determined to go straight. To begin with, he succeeds. But then, though doing all right for himself financially, he gets involved in a set-to with an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Three times the force attacks him and disrupts his scheme. The first time it comes at him with dishonesty and deception. Our man is able to get to his feet, he is still good to stand. Then it strikes him a low blow. He has trouble getting up from that, he is almost counted out. And finally it hits him with monstrous and extreme violence.
LC Classification NumberPT2607.O35B5113 2018
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