Berlin Alexanderplatz
Döblin, Alfred, 1878-19572018
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"Franz Biberkopf, pimp and petty thief, has just finished serving a term in prison for murdering his girlfriend. He's on his own in Weimar Berlin with its lousy economy and frontier morality, but Franz is determined to turn over new leaf, get ahead, make an honest man of himself, and so on and so forth. He hawks papers, chases girls, needs and bleeds money, gets mixed up in various criminal and political schemes in spite of himself, and when he tries to back out of them, it's at the cost of an arm. This is only the beginning of our modern everyman's multiplying misfortunes, but though Franz is more dupe than hustler, in the end, well, persistence is rewarded and things might be said to work out. Just like in a novel. Lucky Franz. Berlin Alexanderplatz is one of great twentieth-century novels. Taking off from the work of John Dos Passos and James Joyce, Alfred D
Main title:
Berlin Alexanderplatz / Alfred Döblin ; translated from the German and with an afterword by Michael Hofmann.
Author:
Döblin, Alfred, 1878-1957, authorHofmann, Michael, 1957 August 25-, translator, writer of afterwor
Imprint:
New York : New York Review Books, [2018]©2018
Collation:
457 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Series title:
Notes:
Translated from the German.
ISBN:
9781681371993 (paperback)
Dewey class:
833.912
Language:
EnglishGerman
Subject:
BRN:
319599
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Paperbacks | D | Available |