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!
Autobiography
Category: Autobiography
Döblin settles accounts with his father
The family catastrophe that broke over the Döblin family when Alfred ...
First Look Back #2
This second excerpt from Döblin’s 1928 autobiographical reflections ‘A First Look ...
DOBLIN RECALLS HIS SCHOOLDAYS
In this third excerpt from his 1928 foray into autobiography (‘A ...
Leo Perutz: The Third Bullet
Now and then a forgotten vanished day comes to mind. Then ...