Expect No Mercy – Another Berlin NovelChris Godwin17th January 2025Download the full text translation: Expect No Mercy Parts 1 and 2 Expect No Mercy Part 3 INTRODUCTION Pardon wird…Read Full Post
The Pilgrim AetheriaChris Godwin28th December 2024A Christmas Tale He considered it “the favourite of all his works”. Yet The Pilgrim Aetheria remained unpublished in his…Read Full Post
Themes in Döblin’s Epics: Read Online 10Chris Godwin6th July 2018Humanity’s ever-worsening estrangement from the natural world is perhaps the most pervasive theme in Döblin’s epic fictions. In numerous passages…Read Full Post
Themes in Döblin’s Epics: Read Online 9Chris Godwin6th July 2018Whether satirising or sympathising, Döblin always paints his royal figures as human beings rather than remote idols. In these excerpts…Read Full Post
Themes in Döblin’s Epics: Read Online 8Chris Godwin6th July 2018 In addition to his epic fictions Döblin wrote a number of plays (for stage and radio), and spent his…Read Full Post
Themes in Döblin’s Epics: Read Online 7Chris Godwin6th July 2018Throughout his works, Döblin has a penetrating eye for political power and the pretensions of status. The first excerpt lampoons…Read Full Post
Themes in Döblin’s Epics: Read Online 6Chris Godwin6th July 2018Behind the ‘rational’ everyday world lurk mysterious forces, sometimes benign but mostly unsettling if not terrifying. Wars and invasions provide…Read Full Post
Themes in Döblin’s Epics: Read Online 5Chris Godwin6th July 2018 Though unimpressed by religious Judaism, Döblin’s fascination with the theme of exile frequently surfaces in his fictions. These two…Read Full Post
Themes in Döblin’s Epics: Read Online 4Chris Godwin6th July 2018 Religion as the expression of a primal sense of humanity’s place in the world and the cosmos; religion as…Read Full Post
Themes in Döblin’s Epics: Read online 3Chris Godwin5th July 2018In the dystopian epic Mountains Oceans Giants, the most momentous step in alienating humanity from the natural world is the…Read Full Post