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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Themes in Döblin’s Epics: Read Online 1
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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Of the four epics Döblin published before Berlin Alexanderplatz, only the earliest – The Three Leaps of Wang Lun –…
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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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