Essays - Beyond Alexanderplatz

Doctor Döblin and the writer Döblin

“I’m also a doctor, and not as a sideline,” declared Döblin. ...

October 15, 2024

Prometheus and the Primitive – the essay

Man, who whether he will or no must acknowledge himself an ...

October 15, 2024

Prometheus and the Primitive

“There are two paths. From earliest times, two technologies and stances ...

October 15, 2024

3 Political Essays 1919

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

October 15, 2024

Construction of the epic

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

October 15, 2024

Kapp Putsch

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

October 15, 2024

German Masquerade

Döblin’s writings on politics, life and literature are completely unknown to ...

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

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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