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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Publication Update March 2021
Printed copies of Manas and Mountains Oceans Giants are being distributed to bookshops and online sellers, and e-book formats are…
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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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Introducing Döblin’s most neglected epic fiction I posted earlier my adaptation of Döblin’s Himalayan verse epic as a…
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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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Behind the ‘rational’ everyday world lurk mysterious forces, sometimes benign but mostly unsettling if not terrifying. Wars and invasions provide…
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Religion as the expression of a primal sense of humanity’s place in the world and the cosmos; religion as…
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This second set of themed excerpts explores the ways in which human beings have become estranged not just from the…
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Each of Döblin’s Epic fictions plays out over several hundred pages. To introduce readers of English to the worlds he…
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