Leo Perutz: The Third Bullet
THE THIRD BULLET by Leo Perutz Now and then a forgotten vanished day comes to mind. Then suddenly I see…
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The Jungle Ship
“Oh, one can never attain the true Dorado, even if one at last by luck treads golden pavements… You never…
Read Full PostPublication Update March 2021
Printed copies of Manas and Mountains Oceans Giants are being distributed to bookshops and online sellers, and e-book formats are…
Read Full PostBabylonian Exile Part Three
In Part Three, Döblin has really hit his stride. It’s now clear where the pleasures of this novel lie: not…
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In 1978, Günter Grass toured Asia and Africa, taking with him Döblin’s “extravagant book, whose theme is the heaven-storming extravagance…
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An English translation recently appeared of Christoph Ransmayr’s 2006 “novel in verse” Der fliegende Berg. With the forthcoming publication of…
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The free-verse epic Manas remains, almost a century after it appeared, the most neglected item in Döblin’s oeuvre. Has any…
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The text below was submitted to the website as a comment. The questions it raises seemed interesting and important enough…
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From an actual city of walls and temples and imperial power, by the time of the New Testament Babylon had…
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The first English translations of two Döblin epics are scheduled for publication in May 2020. I’m pondering how best to…
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