A Companion to the Works of Alfred Döblin

Book Overview

Alfred D blin (1878-1957) was one of the great German-Jewish writers of the 20th century, a major figure in the German avant-garde before the First World War and a leading intellectual during the Weimar Republic. D blin greatly influenced the history of the German novel: his best-known work, the best-selling 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, has frequently been compared in its use of internal monologue and literary montage to James Joyce's Ulysses and John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer. D blin's oeuvre is by no means limited to novels, but in this genre, he offered a surprising variety of narrative techniques, themes, structures, and outlooks. D blin's impact on German writers after the Second World War was considerable: G nter Grass, for example, acknowledged him as "my teacher." And yet, while Alexanderplatz continues to fascinate the reading public, it has overshadowed the rest of D blin's immense oeuvre. This volume of carefully focused essays seeks to do justice to such important texts as D blin's early stories, his numerous other novels, his political, philosophical, medical, autobiographical, and religious essays, his experimental plays, and his writings on the new media of cinema and radio Roland Dollinger is associate professor of German at Sarah Lawrence College; Wulf Koepke is professor emeritus of German at Texas A&M University; Heidi Thomann Tewarson is professor of German at Oberlin College.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1571134603
• ISBN13: 9781571134608
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 326 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"