Döblin's Life and Works - Beyond Alexanderplatz - Page 3

Phantasus Selection 1

The plain uncomplicated language of the 101 poems in the first ...

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Phantasus selection 2

Arno Holz was deeply interested in the scientific developments of the ...

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Phantasus Selection 3

Fully one-third of the poems in Phantasus depict imagined fantastical scenes and behaviours, ...

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Phantasus Selection 4

Loss, love, longing, joy, scorn, sadness – Holz can capture moods ...

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Döblin settles accounts with his father

The family catastrophe that broke over the Döblin family when Alfred ...

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First Look Back #2

This second excerpt from Döblin’s 1928 autobiographical reflections ‘A First Look ...

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DOBLIN RECALLS HIS SCHOOLDAYS

In this third excerpt from his 1928 foray into autobiography (‘A ...

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Defenestrations

In (at least) three of his major fictions, and scattered through ...

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Doeblin in Exile (1)

During his 12 years in exile, unable to practice medicine, bereft ...

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Döblin in Exile (2)

Flippant and untimely, or profound and appropriate to the time? Irresponsible ...

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Alfred Döblin is known to the English-reading world, if at all, for only one of his many works: the big-city epic Berlin Alexanderplatz. With a new translation of THAT book appearing in 2018, this is a good moment to introduce Alfred Döblin’s OTHER major works – Beyond Alexanderplatz – in English!

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