Encounters with Doblin
I’m working up a short series of translations in which significant figures tell of their encounters with Döblin. I’ve used…
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Döblin in Exile (2)
Flippant and untimely, or profound and appropriate to the time? Irresponsible “comedy” in the face of calamity, or black…
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Introducing Döblin’s most neglected epic fiction I posted earlier my adaptation of Döblin’s Himalayan verse epic as a…
Read Full PostContemporary reviews of Wallenstein
Few readers will embark on a 900 page novel without first knowing something about it. The two reviews below, by…
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Was Döblin a racist and anti-Semite? Did Döblin betray Judaism and Socialism? Was he a renegade? What was Sebald’s problem with…
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