Berlin Alexanderplatz

Alfred Doblin (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 StephanTranslated by Eugene Jolas>

ISBN 0826477895   Pages 432 ISBN13 9780826477897 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.   Weight (grammes) 426 Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.   Published in London Format Paperback   Series title Continuum Impacts Publication date 14 Oct 2004   Previous ISBN 9780826414878 Translator Jolas, Eugene   Height (mm) 198 Library of Congress PT2607.O35   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 833.912   Spine width (mm) 21 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

"This reprint of the 1961 English version of the novel could hardly have been translated by a person more competent and knowledgeable than Eugene Jolas... Jolas's thorough knowledge of both languages, as proverbs and word puns, being extremely difficult to transfer from one language into another, are very well captured and translated.

...The novel provides the reader with a deep insight into life in mass society of the Weimar Republic."- Margaret Heukaefer, "International Fiction Review, "Vol. 33 2006v

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