Döblin's Epics - Beyond Alexanderplatz

Wang Lun Outtake 2: Conversation in the Palace of Qianlong

Like the Prologue, this Outtake was published separately as a short ...

October 1, 2024

Wang Lun – Outtakes

When The Three Leaps of Wang Lun was published as a book in ...

October 1, 2024

Outtake 3: The Emperor and the Dzungars

The third and shortest of the three outtakes dealing with the ...

October 1, 2024

Translating Döblin

What sort of amateur spends thousands of hours translating an unknown ...

October 1, 2024

Translating Döblin Part 2

Of the four epics Döblin published before Berlin Alexanderplatz, only the earliest – The ...

October 1, 2024

Translating Döblin Part 3

Here we go deep into the weeds, detailing the critical comments ...

October 1, 2024

Wallenstein Introduction 1

‘The historical novel is firstly a novel, and secondly no history… ...

October 1, 2024

Wallenstein Introduction (2)

How Döblin burrows down beneath the historical facts to a deeper ...

October 1, 2024

Wallenstein Book 3

This third part of the epic novel moves along at a ...

October 1, 2024

Dog Gallows

What can a 17th century parish register tell us about Döblin’s merging ...

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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