{"product_id":"berlin-alexanderplatz-paperback","title":"Berlin Alexanderplatz","description":"\u003cp\u003eBy Alfred Döblin\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Michael Hofmann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan data-width=\"\" class=\"author notFaded\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe inspiration for Rainer Werner Fassbinder's epic film and that \u003cem\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/em\u003e named one of the \"Top 100 Books of All Time\", \u003ci\u003eBerlin Alexanderplatz \u003c\/i\u003eis considered one of the most important works of the Weimar Republic and twentieth century literature.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“[A] major writer who grappled with the roots of darkness in our time. . .”—Ernst Pawel, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“In this new translation, the dissonant voices ring out boldly; we can tell when someone is being mimicked and wickedly sent up, enjoy the black Berlin humor. . .Döblin is never sentimental, or hysterical. He just gets us to listen to the drumbeat of violence throbbing in this city of the mind. \u003cem\u003eBerlin Alexanderplatz\u003c\/em\u003e is one of the great anti-war novels of our time.”—Joachim Redner, \u003cem\u003eAustralian Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“It was long branded untranslatable. . .Yet a fluent, pacy new translation by Michael Hofmann gainsays that assumption, opening up the book for English-speakers. . .Something of the psychology of Weimar, the desire to touch the electric fence just to see what happens, lives on in modern societies and makes them, in their own ways, vulnerable to extremism and demagoguery. . .One lesson of \u003cem\u003eBerlin Alexanderplatz\u003c\/em\u003e is that darkness can take many forms.”—\u003cem\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eBerlin Alexanderplatz\u003c\/em\u003e, the great novel of Berlin and the doomed Weimar Republic, is one of the great books of the twentieth century, gruesome, farcical, and appalling, word drunk, pitch-dark. In Michael Hofmann's extraordinary new translation, Alfred Döblin's masterpiece lives in English for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRecently released from prison, cement worker Franz Biberkopf is determined to return to Berlin and set his life on the right track. He enters, however, the doomed world of the Weimar era, where opportunity is scarce and Nazism looms on the horizon. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRadical at its time for its use of slang and 'everyday' vernacular,\u003cem\u003e Berlin Alexanderplatz \u003c\/em\u003eassembles a bricolage of sounds, sensations and media to paint a vivid picture of its namesake city. Hoffmann's recent translation has won praise for rendering its difficult narrative style, which is reminiscent of Kafka's blending of first and third-person narrative. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaperback\u003cbr\u003e480 pages\u003cbr\u003eNYRB Classics, 2018\u003cbr\u003eOriginally published in 1929\u003cbr\u003e5.1 x 1 x 8 inches\u003cbr\u003eISBN 9781681371993\u003cbr\u003eCrime, Political Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":7754662051870,"sku":"9781681371993","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Berlin-Alexanderplatz_Alfred-Doblin.jpg?v=1590766671","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/berlin-alexanderplatz-paperback","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}