MOUNTAINS OCEANS GIANTS complete
The first complete (but slightly abridged) English text of Döblin’s challenging dystopia is now ready for download, along with…
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Outtake 4: The Prince’s Daughter
The fourth and last of published outtakes from Wang Lun, and the only one not dealing with the high politics…
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The third and shortest of the three outtakes dealing with the high politics of the Dzungar campaigns, which Döblin cut…
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When The Three Leaps of Wang Lun was published as a book in 1916, several passages from the MS had…
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Like the Prologue, this Outtake was published separately as a short story: in this case, in the Sunday Supplement of…
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When the new edition of The Three Leaps of Wang Lun was published, I was not given an opportunity to…
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