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Berlin Alexanderplatz
Alfred Döblin
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Description for Berlin Alexanderplatz
Paperback. Translator(s): Hofmann, Michael. Num Pages: 496 pages. BIC Classification: FYT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. .
The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb new translation by Michael Hofmann
Franz 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2019
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141191621
SKU
V9780141191621
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About Alfred Döblin
Alfred Döblin, one of the great figures of German modernism, was born in 1878 to a Jewish family. He moved to Berlin at the age of ten, where he remained for the next 45 years. Döblin's 1929 masterpiece Berlin Alexanderplatz made him famous, but he was forced to flee to France and then Los Angeles during the years of the ... Read more
Reviews for Berlin Alexanderplatz
This new English translation by Michael Hofmann - the first in more than 75 years - expertly captures the fecundity, originality and musicality of Döblin's masterpiece ... A bold and dazzling collage of a novel
The National
Ace translator Michael Hofmann has delivered an exhilarating new version of Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz: that street-smart, slang-filled, richly allusive tale ... Read more
The National
Ace translator Michael Hofmann has delivered an exhilarating new version of Alfred Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz: that street-smart, slang-filled, richly allusive tale ... Read more