Bright Magic: Stories
Stories
Alfred Doblin
ISBN: | 9781590179734 |
Publisher: | New York Review of Books |
Published: | 9 August, 2016 |
Format: | Paperback |
Language: | English |
Links | Penguin |
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Bright Magic: Stories
Stories
Alfred Doblin
Alfred Döblin was a titan of modern German literature. This collection of stories--astonishingly, the first collection of his stories ever published in English--shows him to have been equally adept in shorter forms. Included in its entirety is Döblin's first book, The Murder of a Buttercup, a work of savage brilliance and a landmark of literary expressionism. Mortality roams the streets of nineteenth-century Manhattan, with a white borzoi and a quiet smile. A ballerina duels to the death with the stupid childish body she is bound to. We experience, in the celebrated title story, a dizzying descent into a shattered mind. The collection is then rounded off with two longer stories written when Döblin was in exile from Nazi Germany in Southern California, including the delightful "Materialism: A Fable," in which news of humanity's soulless doctrines spreads to the animals, elements, and molecules of nature.
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