Döblin's Non-Fiction - Beyond Alexanderplatz - Page 3

3 Political Essays 1919

Döblin’s eye-witness accounts of the end of the World War and ...

October 15, 2024

Doeblin’s Eulogy for Arno Holz

In his funeral oration for the poet Arno Holz (1863-1929), Doeblin ...

October 15, 2024

Arno Holz and Phantasus

The first version of Arno Holz’s poem cycle ‘Phantasus’, published in ...

October 15, 2024

Arno Holz Phantasus complete

The poet Arno Holz was born 156 years ago today, on ...

October 15, 2024

Tropics – the Myth of the Journey

“We alternate something, we make it different, absurd, upside down, and ...

October 15, 2024

Construction of the epic

What happens then when Homer starts up, when Dante goes through ...

October 15, 2024

Döblin settles accounts with his father

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

October 1, 2024

First Look Back #2

appy for long. She had a curiously sceptical and resigned view ...

October 1, 2024

DOBLIN RECALLS HIS SCHOOLDAYS

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

October 1, 2024

Kapp Putsch

The Versailles Treaty required Germany to reduce its military to no ...

October 1, 2024

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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