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Bright magic, stories, Alfred Döblin ; selected and translated from the German by Damion Searls ; introduction by Günter Grass

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Bright magic, stories, Alfred Döblin ; selected and translated from the German by Damion Searls ; introduction by Günter Grass

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

short stories

Main title

Bright magic

Oclc number

929917282

Responsibility statement

Alfred Döblin ; selected and translated from the German by Damion Searls ; introduction by Günter Grass

Series statement

New York Review Books classics

Sub title

stories

Summary

"Alfred Doblin 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 Doblin'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 Doblin 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"--, Provided by publisher

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