Berlin Alexanderplatz: Radio, Film, and the Death of Weimar Culture Volume 37

by Peter Jelavich

Book Overview

This fascinating exploration of a work that was the epitome of German literary modernism illuminates in chilling detail the death of the Weimar Republic's left-leaning culture of innovation and experimentation. Peter Jelavich examines Alfred D blin's Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), a novel that questioned the autonomy and coherence of the human personality in the modern metropolis, and traces the radical discrepancies that came with its adaptation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520259971
• ISBN13: 9780520259973
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"