Expect No Mercy – Another Berlin Novel
EXPECT NO MERCY WILL BE PUBLISHED BY GALILEO IN AUTUMN 2026 (UK), SPRING 2027 (US)! INTRODUCTION Pardon wird nicht gegeben…
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The Pilgrim Aetheria
A Christmas Tale He considered it “the favourite of all his works”. Yet The Pilgrim Aetheria remained unpublished in his…
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Humanity’s ever-worsening estrangement from the natural world is perhaps the most pervasive theme in Döblin’s epic fictions. In numerous passages…
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Whether satirising or sympathising, Döblin always paints his royal figures as human beings rather than remote idols. In these excerpts…
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In addition to his epic fictions Döblin wrote a number of plays (for stage and radio), and spent his…
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Throughout his works, Döblin has a penetrating eye for political power and the pretensions of status. The first excerpt lampoons…
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Behind the ‘rational’ everyday world lurk mysterious forces, sometimes benign but mostly unsettling if not terrifying. Wars and invasions provide…
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Though unimpressed by religious Judaism, Döblin’s fascination with the theme of exile frequently surfaces in his fictions. These two…
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Religion as the expression of a primal sense of humanity’s place in the world and the cosmos; religion as…
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In the dystopian epic Mountains Oceans Giants, the most momentous step in alienating humanity from the natural world is the…
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