The Babylonian Exile
This satirical, ironic, often witty novel has no tendency, rather a hundred tendencies. It critiques modern life, but perhaps does…
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Babylonian Exile Part Four
Having fled from police enquiries in Baghdad, Conrad, George and Waldemar must find their feet in historic bustling Constantinople.…
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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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Flippant and untimely, or profound and appropriate to the time? Irresponsible “comedy” in the face of calamity, or black…
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During his 12 years in exile, unable to practice medicine, bereft of income from his writings, and in 1940 again…
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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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