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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Döblin’s Wallenstein and History
The way all incidents, places, people implant such a compelling sense of reality: that is the signature of Döblin’s…
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I have revised and corrected the first edition of my translation of Wallenstein with the help of the meticulously annotated…
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Few readers will embark on a 900 page novel without first knowing something about it. The two reviews below, by…
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How Doeblin wrote Wallenstein Around the time his epic of the Thirty Years War was published, Doeblin wrote an…
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At last I’ve finished translating Doeblin’s great 17th century epic into English! Rulers and rebels, prelates and posturers, courtiers and…
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What can a 17th century parish register tell us about Döblin’s merging of history and imagination in Wallenstein? Immediately following…
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This third part of the epic novel moves along at a cracking pace. Döblin’s mastery of his source materials…
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How Döblin burrows down beneath the historical facts to a deeper reality of life and meaning, and shapes his wild…
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‘The historical novel is firstly a novel, and secondly no history… People ask, who bothers with the Thirty Years War?…
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