Julian Elfer
Author
Language
English
Description
Berlin Alexanderplatz, 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. As Döblin writes: The subject of this book is the life of the former cement worker and haulier Franz Biberkopf in Berlin. As our story begins,...