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Penguin Books Ltd Berlin Alexanderplatz
The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb new translation by Michael HofmannFranz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds himself thwarted by an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Cheated, humiliated, thrown from a moving car; embroiled in an underworld of pimps, thugs, drunks and prostitutes, Franz picks himself up over and over again - until one day he is struck a monstrous blow which might just prove his final downfall.A dazzling collage of newspaper reports, Biblical stories, drinking songs and urban slang, Berlin Alexanderplatz is the great novel of Berlin life: inventing, styling and recreating the city as reality and dream; mimicking its movements and rhythms; immortalizing its pubs, abattoirs, apartments and chaotic streets. From the gutter to the stars, this is the whole picture of the city.Berlin Alexanderplatz brought fame in 1929 to its author Alfred Döblin, until then an impecunious writer and doctor in a working-class neighbourhood in the east of Berlin. Success at home was short-lived, however; Doblin, a Jew, left Germany the day after the Reichstag Fire in 1933, and did not return until 1945. This landmark translation by Michael Hofmann is the first to do justice to Berlin Alexanderplatz in English, brilliantly capturing the energy, prodigality and inventiveness of Döblin's masterpiece.
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Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH Berge Meere und Giganten
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Galileo Publishers Citizens and Soldiers
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 applied to seminal events still within living memory, and still highly controversial. He and his family (now with three small children) left Alsace on 14 November 1918 with the hospital staff and patients, reaching Berlin several days later. In March 1919 he witnessed the savage repression of the uprising in Lichtenberg, the eastern Berlin district where he had settled; his sister Meta was killed by grenade shrapnel as she fetched milk for her children. His essay On Cannibalism reveals his anger at both the ineptitude of the insurgents and the callousness of the Social Democrat Minister of Wa
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FISCHER Taschenbuch Unser Dasein Fischer Klassik
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S. Fischer Verlag Reise in Polen
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Reclam Philipp Jun. Berlin Alexanderplatz Lektreschlssel
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FISCHER, S. November 1918 Eine deutsche Revolution Erzhlwerk in drei Teilen Erster Teil Brger und Soldaten 1918
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FISCHER, S. November 1918 Eine deutsche Revolution Erzhlwerk in drei Teilen Zweiter Teil Erster Band Verratenes Volk
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FISCHER, S. Wallenstein
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FISCHER, S. Pardon wird nicht gegeben
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FISCHER, S. Berge Meere und Giganten
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Galileo Publishing The The Epic Worlds of Alfred Doblin
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FISCHER Taschenbuch November 1918 Zweiter Teil Zweiter Band Heimkehr der Fronttruppen Eine deutsche Revolution Erzhlwerk in drei Teilen
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FISCHER Taschenbuch Berlin Alexanderplatz Die Geschichte vom Franz Biberkopf
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Galileo Publishers The Land Without Death: The Amazonas Trilogy
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Berlin Alexanderplatz
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Text Publishing Two Women And A Poisoning
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The New York Review of Books, Inc Bright Magic: Stories
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