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  • Berlin Alexanderplatz

    Translated by e-artnow ...
    Set against the bustling backdrop of 1920s Berlin, Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin is a groundbreaking modernist novel that immerses readers in the vibrant rhythms and raw edges of a rapidly transforming metropolis. At its center is Franz Biberkopf, a man released from prison who yearns for a life of honest work and new possibilities. Yet he soon finds himself caught in an intense battle ... Read more

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  • Berlin Alexanderplatz

    Berlin Alexanderplatz is a profound exploration of human struggle, moral ambiguity, and the societal pressures shaping individual lives. Alfred Döblin vividly portrays the challenges faced by Franz Biberkopf, a man recently released from prison, as he navigates the complexities of life in the chaotic urban landscape of Weimar-era Berlin. The novel delves into themes of redemption, the fragility of ... Read more

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  • Berlin Alexanderplatz

    Berlin Alexanderplatz, English edition.   Translation by Anne Thompson of Alfred Döblin’s masterpiece set in 1920’s Berlin towards the end of the jazz and music-hall era of the Roaring Twenties. Franz Biberkopf is released after four years in prison for killing his girl-friend in a fit of rage. He makes a vow that he will go straight and lead a decent life, but his corrupt environment makes it ... Read more

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  • The Epic Worlds of Alfred Doblin

    An Adventurous Reader's Guide

    Of the three great German word-artists of the first half of the 20th century, Alfred Doblin remains the least known. The other two are Thomas Mann, whose attitude towards Doblin ranged from cautious admiration to violent rage; and Berthold Brecht, who learned much from the ideas of his friend Doblin. Anglophone readers have almost no source of information about Doblin, or about the few works ... Read more

    $6.19 USD

  • Berlin Alexanderplatz

    by Alfred Doblin ...
    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    The inspiration for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic film and that The Guardian named one of the "Top 100 Books of All Time," Berlin Alexanderplatz is considered one of the most important works of the Weimar Republic and twentieth century literature.Berlin Alexanderplatz, the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the twentieth century, gruesome, farcical ... Read more

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  • Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf

    by Alfred Doblin ...
    First published in the original German in 1929, written by Alfred Döblin (died 1957), then translated into this English edition in 1931 by Eugene Jolas (died 1952), now in the public domain and considered a Modernist, urban masterpiece of Weimar-era German literature. Alfred Döblin’s gritty classic ''Berlin Alexanderplatz'' follows Franz Biberkopf, a former convict trying to go straight in the ... Read more

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  • Citizens and Soldiers

    Volume 1 of November 1918

    by Alfred Doblin ...
    Translated by C.D. Godwin ...
    Towards the end of 1937, having just completed his South American Amazonas trilogy (The Land without Death), Doblin embarked on a new project much closer to home. As a military doctor in Alsace he had experienced firsthand the chaotic scenes in Haguenau and Strasbourg that followed the Kaiser's abdication and the Armistice. His skill at depicting historical events in vivid epic prose would now be ... Read more

    $7.39 USD

  • Destiny's Journey

    Destiny's Journey by Alfred Döblin (edited by Edgar Pässler, translated from the German by Edna McCown, introduction by Peter Demetz; 131,000 words) Destiny's Journey is a memoir reconstructed partly from notebooks that Döblin kept from the time he worked in the French Ministry of Information in the spring of 1940 and partly written without notes in Los Angeles where he took refuge during the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Land Without Death

    The Amazonas Trilogy

    by Alfred Doblin ...
    Alfred Doblin (1878-1957) composed his epic trilogy of South America under difficult circumstances of exile. It was accessible on first publication in 1937-38 only outside Germany, and for only a couple of years before war broke out. The first postwar edition, like others of Doblin's works apart from Berlin Alexanderplatz, was little noticed in a Germany traumatised by Nazism and defeat. Neither ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • Manas

    by Alfred Doblin ...
    Translated by C.D. Godwin ...
    This remarkable book - an exciting and intriguing story, a blend of Hindu mythology and existentialism and told with great verve in a vigorous, direct language of many moods and voices - is one of the major fictions Alfred Doblin produced over the forty tumultuous years pre-World War 1 to post-World War 2. Doblin himself is one of the least known of the twentieth century's great German writers, ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • Mountains Oceans Giants

    An Epic of the 27th Century

    by Alfred Doblin ...
    Translated by C.D. Godwin ...
    I know of no attempt in literature that pulls together so boldly and directly the human and the divine, piling on every kind of action, thought, desire, love... Here perhaps the true face of 'Expressionism' reveals itself for the first time. - Max Krell The 27th century: beleaguered elites decide to melt the Greenland icecap. Why? - to open up a new continent, for colonisation by the unruly masses ... Read more

    $9.49 USD

  • Bright Magic

    Stories

    by Alfred Doblin ...
    Translated by Damion Searls ...
    Alfred Döblin’s many imposing novels, above all Berlin Alexanderplatz, have established him as one of the titans of modern German literature. This collection of his stories —astonishingly, the first ever to appear in English—shows him to have been a master of short fiction too.Bright Magic includes all of Döblin’s first book, The Murder of a Buttercup, a work of savage brilliance and a landmark of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD