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Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (Continuum Impacts)

Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story of Franz Biberkopf (Continuum Impacts)

by Alfred Doblin (Author)

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    Paperback 2004

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    Paperback 1978

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Synopsis

Tells the story of Franz Biberkopt, who, on being released from prison is confronted with the proverty, unemployment, crime and burgeoning Nazism of 1920s Germany. As Franz struggles to survive in this world, fate teases him with a little pleasure before cruelly turning on him.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 432
 Publisher: Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd.
Published: 14 Oct 2004
ISBN 10: 0826477895
ISBN 13: 9780826477897

Media Reviews
This reprint of the 1961 English version of the novel could hardly have been translated by a person more competent and knowledgeable than Eugene Jolas... Jolas's thorough knowledge of both languages, as proverbs and word puns, being extremely difficult to transfer from one language into another, are very well captured and translated.

...The novel provides the reader with a deep insight into life in mass society of the Weimar Republic. - Margaret Heukaefer, International Fiction Review, Vol. 33 2006v

Author Bio
Alfred Doblin, born in Germany in 1878, was a physician and a prolific writer. he lived and practiced in the working class district of Alexanderplatz for over twenty years, until the rise of Nazism drove him to the United States in 1933. He returned to Europe after the war. Virtually ignored for years, Doblin's books are all back in print as a new generation discovers him.