Bright magic : stories / Alfred Döblin ; Selected and translated from the German by Damion Searls ; introduction by Günter Grass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Döblin, Alfred, 1878-1957, author.

Contributor:

Searls, Damion, translator.

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Short stories, German.

Genre:

Short stories, German.

Short stories.

Fiction.

Physical Description:

xiv, 210 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, 2016.

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.

Other Format:

Online version: Döblin, Alfred, 1878-1957, author. Bright magic.

ISBN:

9781590179734

1590179730

OCLC:

929917282