The Cutting Room FloorChris Godwin30th December 2024Eight outcast and orphaned pieces from the prolific pen of Alfred Döblin “He found production in no way difficult; on…Read Full Post
MANAS – Waymarker 2Chris Godwin21st May 2020An English translation recently appeared of Christoph Ransmayr’s 2006 “novel in verse” Der fliegende Berg. With the forthcoming publication of…Read Full Post
Manas: Waymarkers into Unknown TerritoryChris Godwin26th April 2020The free-verse epic Manas remains, almost a century after it appeared, the most neglected item in Döblin’s oeuvre. Has any…Read Full Post
MOG Parts 1 and 2Chris Godwin25th February 2019We have already posted the second half of this astonishing work of imaginative fiction – the Iceland-Greenland venture and its…Read Full Post
Mountains Oceans Giants – Editorial DecisionsChris Godwin4th August 2018Mountains Oceans Giants – A Novel of the 27th century was published by Galileo in 2021. Remarks on Berge Meere…Read Full Post
Translating Döblin Part 3Chris Godwin27th May 2018Here we go deep into the weeds, detailing the critical comments of the two publisher’s reviewers and my responses to…Read Full Post
Translating Döblin Part 2Chris Godwin27th May 2018Of the four epics Döblin published before Berlin Alexanderplatz, only the earliest – The Three Leaps of Wang Lun –…Read Full Post
Translating DöblinChris Godwin22nd May 2018What sort of amateur spends thousands of hours translating an unknown epic novel by a writer known (if at all)…Read Full Post