Berlin Alexanderplatz

2004-01-01 Philosophy

Author : Alfred Döblin
Release : 2004-01-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 897/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Berlin Alexanderplatz written by Alfred Döblin. This book was released on 2004-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Döblin (1878-1957) studied medicine in Berlin and specialized in the treatment of nervous diseases. Along with his experiences as a psychiatrist in the workers' quarter of Berlin, his writing was inspired by the work of Holderlin, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and was first published in the literary magazine, Der Sturm. Associated with the Expressionist literary movement in Germany, he is now recognized as on of the most important modern European novelists. Berlin Alexanderplatz is one of the masterpieces of modern European literature and the first German novel to adopt the technique of James Joyce. It tells the story of Franz Biberkopf, who, on being released from prison, is confronted with the poverty, unemployment, crime and burgeoning Nazism of 1920s Germany. As Franz struggles to survive in this world, fate teases him with a little pleasure before cruelly turning on him. Foreword by Alexander Stephan Translated by Eugene Jolas>

Berlin Alexanderplatz

2009-03-31 History

Author : Peter Jelavich
Release : 2009-03-31
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 971/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Berlin Alexanderplatz written by Peter Jelavich. This book was released on 2009-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jelavich examines Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel 'Berlin Alexanderplatz', which questioned the autonomy & coherence of the human personality in the modern metropolis, & traces the discrepancies that radically altered the work when it was adapted for radio & as a motion picture.

Go, Went, Gone

2017-09-15 Fiction

Author : Jenny Erpenbeck
Release : 2017-09-15
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 95X/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Go, Went, Gone written by Jenny Erpenbeck. This book was released on 2017-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times Notable Book 2018; Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2018; Lois Roth Award Winner An unforgettable German bestseller about the European refugee crisis: “Erpenbeck will get under your skin” (Washington Post Book World) Go, Went, Gone is the masterful new novel by the acclaimed German writer Jenny Erpenbeck, “one of the most significant German-language novelists of her generation” (The Millions). The novel tells the tale of Richard, a retired classics professor who lives in Berlin. His wife has died, and he lives a routine existence until one day he spies some African refugees staging a hunger strike in Alexanderplatz. Curiosity turns to compassion and an inner transformation, as he visits their shelter, interviews them, and becomes embroiled in their harrowing fates. Go, Went, Gone is a scathing indictment of Western policy toward the European refugee crisis, but also a touching portrait of a man who finds he has more in common with the Africans than he realizes. Exquisitely translated by Susan Bernofsky, Go, Went, Gone addresses one of the most pivotal issues of our time, facing it head-on in a voice that is both nostalgic and frightening.

Fassbinder

2007 Berlin Alexanderplatz (Television program)

Author : Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Release : 2007
Genre : Berlin Alexanderplatz (Television program)
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Book Rating : 102/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Fassbinder written by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. This book was released on 2007. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

All for Nothing

2018-02-13 Fiction

Author : Walter Kempowski
Release : 2018-02-13
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 061/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book All for Nothing written by Walter Kempowski. This book was released on 2018-02-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wealthy family tries--and fails--to seal themselves off from the chaos of post-World War II life surrounding them in this stunning novel by one of Germany's most important post-war writers. In East Prussia, January 1945, the German forces are in retreat and the Red Army is approaching. The von Globig family's manor house, the Georgenhof, is falling into disrepair. Auntie runs the estate as best she can since Eberhard von Globig, a special officer in the German army, went to war, leaving behind his beautiful but vague wife, Katharina, and her bookish twelve-year-old son, Peter. As the road fills with Germans fleeing the occupied territories, the Georgenhof begins to receive strange visitors--a Nazi violinist, a dissident painter, a Baltic baron, even a Jewish refugee. Yet in the main, life continues as banal, wondrous, and complicit as ever for the family, until their caution, their hedged bets, and their denial are answered by the wholly expected events they haven't allowed themselves to imagine. All for Nothing, published in 2006, was the last novel by Walter Kempowski, one of postwar Germany's most acclaimed and popular writers.

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