Bright Magic
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Bright Magic by Alfred Doblin
Alfred D blin's many imposing novels, above all Berlin Alexanderplatz, have established him as one of the titans of modern German literature. This collection of his stories --astonishingly, the first ever to appear in English--shows him to have been a master of short fiction too. Bright Magic includes all of D blin's first book, The Murder of a Buttercup, a work of savage brilliance and a landmark of literary expressionism, as well as two longer stories composed in the 1940s, when he lived in exile in Southern California. The early collection is full of mind-bending and sexually charged narratives, from the dizzying descent into madness that has made the title story one of the most anthologized of German stories to She Who Helped, where mortality roams the streets of nineteenth-century Manhattan with a white borzoi and a quiet smile, and The Ballerina and the Body, which describes a terrible duel to the death. Of the two later stories, Materialism, A Fable, in which news of humanity's soulless doctrines reaches the animals, elements, and the molecules themselves, is especially delightful.
Doblin, Alfred: - Alfred Doblin, born in Szczecin in 1878, initially worked as a medical assistant and opened his own practice in Berlin in 1911. Doblin's first novel appeared in 1915/16. His greatest success was the novel Berlin Alexanderplatz published in 1929. In 1933 Doblin emigrated to France and finally to the USA. After the end of the 2nd World War he moved back to Germany, but then moved in 1953 with his family to Paris. He died on June 26, 1957.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781590179734 |
| ISBN 10 | 1590179730 |
| Titel | Bright Magic |
| Autor | Alfred Doblin |
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| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | The New York Review of Books, Inc |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2016-10-25 |
| Seitenanzahl | 240 |
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