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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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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The free-verse epic Manas remains, almost a century after it appeared, the most neglected item in Döblin’s oeuvre. Has any…
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We have already posted the second half of this astonishing work of imaginative fiction – the Iceland-Greenland venture and its…
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Mountains Oceans Giants – A Novel of the 27th century was published by Galileo in 2021. Remarks on Berge Meere…
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Here we go deep into the weeds, detailing the critical comments of the two publisher’s reviewers and my responses to…
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Of the four epics Döblin published before Berlin Alexanderplatz, only the earliest – The Three Leaps of Wang Lun –…
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What sort of amateur spends thousands of hours translating an unknown epic novel by a writer known (if at all)…
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