ADVENTUROUS READERS GUIDE
ADVENTUROUS READERS’ GUIDE TO THE EPIC WORLDS OF ALFRED DÖBLIN In October 2024, Galileo will publish the first ever selection…
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Review of ‘Land without Death’
Arnold Hoellriegel (=Richard A Bermann) : Review of Fahrt ins Land ohne Tod by Alfred Döblin, in Der Wiener Tag,…
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“Oh, one can never attain the true Dorado, even if one at last by luck treads golden pavements… You never…
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My translation of Doeblin’s South American epic (its original title now restored) is scheduled by Galileo for book publication…
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As work proceeds with the main task of bringing neglected 20th Century German authors to a wider public, some ancillary…
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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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