Döblin's Non-Fiction - Beyond Alexanderplatz - Page 2

Döblin in Exile (2)

Flippant and untimely, or profound and appropriate to the time? Irresponsible ...

October 15, 2024

A Year in Hollywood

For one year – 8 October 1940 to 7 October 1941 ...

October 15, 2024

Döblin settles accounts with his father

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

October 15, 2024

First Look Back #2

This second excerpt from Döblin’s 1928 autobiographical reflections ‘A First Look ...

October 15, 2024

DOBLIN RECALLS HIS SCHOOLDAYS

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

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Defenestrations

In (at least) three of his major fictions, and scattered through ...

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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

A Year in Hollywood

For one year – 8 October 1940 to 7 October 1941 ...

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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