The Engine Room

Here we provide space for discussion of Döblin’s life and works, and commentary on the experience of translating him.

THE BOOKSHELF

Here is a catalogue of all my translations from the German. All those not yet published as books can be…
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The Cutting Room Floor

Eight outcast and orphaned pieces from the prolific pen of Alfred Döblin “He found production in no way difficult; on…
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Readers’ Responses

Since this website was launched three and a half years ago, reader feedback has been modest in scale but generally…
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November 1918

Citizens & Soldiers, my full translation of the “missing” first volume of Döblin’s largest epic, was published in October 2024…
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MANAS – Waymarker 2

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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MOG Parts 1 and 2

We have already posted the second half of this astonishing work of imaginative fiction – the Iceland-Greenland venture and its…
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