At last I’ve finished translating Doeblin’s great 17th century epic into English!
Rulers and rebels, prelates and posturers, courtiers and coiners, monks and mercenaries fill this teeming narrative, told with colourful cinematic verve.
When Doeblin wrote his novel, Europe’s other Great War was in full swing. A hundred years later, as we still live with the fallout from that ‘war to end all wars’, Wallenstein reminds us of the perennial inability of Europe’s elites to keep the peace.
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Wallenstein-Volume-1 (pdf document, 2mB)
Wallenstein Volume 2 (pdf document, 3mB)
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Amazing job, Chris!
When will it be published?
Hi Daniel, thanks for your query.
I haven’t yet made any serious effort to find a publisher for Wallenstein. Maybe after the autumn 2020 publication of Manas and Mountains Oceans Giants there will be enough interest in Doeblin to justify a push for publication of Wallenstein, the Amazonas trilogy, and my selection of Doeblin’s non-fiction (The German Masquerade). Fingers crossed!