Themes in Döblin’s Epics: Read Online 10
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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Themes in Döblin’s Epics: Read Online 9
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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Though unimpressed by religious Judaism, Döblin’s fascination with the theme of exile frequently surfaces in his fictions. These two…
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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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Döblin’s epics come as massive slabs of brainfare – doorstoppers up to 900 pages long. Most readers would like to…
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