Wallenstein - Beyond Alexanderplatz

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

WALLENSTEIN

At last I’ve finished translating Doeblin’s great 17th century epic into ...

October 1, 2024

How Doeblin wrote Wallenstein

How Doeblin wrote Wallenstein Around the time his epic of ...

October 1, 2024

Contemporary reviews of Wallenstein

Few readers will embark on a 900 page novel without first ...

October 1, 2024

Wallenstein revised 2021

I have revised and corrected the first edition of my translation ...

October 1, 2024

Döblin’s Wallenstein and History

The way all incidents, places, people implant such a compelling sense ...

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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