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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The first complete (but slightly abridged) English text of Döblin’s challenging dystopia is now ready for download, along with…
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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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Part 7 is the climax: the dreadful plan to melt the icecap works – but Nature takes revenge on…
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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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In the dystopian epic Mountains Oceans Giants, the most momentous step in alienating humanity from the natural world is the…
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