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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story Of Franz Biberkopf (Continuum Impacts) List Price: $19.95 Amazon.com's Price: $13.57 You Save: $6.38 (32%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 833.912 EAN: 9780826477897 ISBN: 0826477895 Label: Continuum Manufacturer: Continuum Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 400 Publication Date: 2005-01 Publisher: Continuum Studio: Continuum Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Alfred D?blin (1878-1957) studied medicine in Berlin and specialized in the treatment of nervous diseases. Along with his experiences as a psychiatrist in the workers' quarter of Berlin, his writing was inspired by the work of Holderlin, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche and was first published in the literary magazine, Der Sturm. Associated with the Expressionist literary movement in Germany, he is now recognized as on of the most important modern European novelists. Berlin Alexanderplatz is one of the masterpieces of modern European literature and the first German novel to adopt the technique of James Joyce. It tells the story of Franz Biberkopf, who, on being released from prison, is confronted with the poverty, 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Danke sehr, Herr Einseidler!Cyberfriendships are one of the bizarre artifacts of contemporaneity, but without the prodding of one of my "amazon friends", I might never have gotten around to reading Berlin Alexanderplatz, one of the beacon masterworks of 20th C literature. Alfred Döblin is one of several German and Austrian writers who have not captured the attention of English-language readers as much as they deserve. Others include Robert Walzer, Joseph Roth, Arno Schmidt, and Siegfried Lenz. Döblin, born in 1878, was a ... Read More Rating: - RedemptionThis is an excellent translation that reads easy. It is very thought provoking about contemporary western society. The grisly scenes of slaughterhouse production methods accompany those of interpersonal violence and in essence it revolves around a cyclical betrayal of trust. Franz tries to lead a simple life after his incarceration, but ignores the signs that could have prevented his greatest loss. Ultimately, I can only say what this book gave me - and it is that Franz finds redemption, and that ... Read More Rating:  - I Tried to like this book........but the problem is with the translation. Eugene Jolas' translation is horribly outdated, was in fact done in the early thirties. Nobody has even thought about re-translating what seems to me, in spite of the outdated, insipid colloqualisms, quite a very good, fascinating book. This is why I gave the book three rather than one or two. Rating: - Read the book - then buy the Fassbinder film seriesThis is one of my favorite books. The characters of Franz and Reinhold are just so contrary and yet in a way so similar - you will come to many realizations over the course of the novel - it is repetitious and yet not excessive in its repetition (kind of like 'the hundred years of solitude') By the way, you can find the Fassbinder film series on ebay - it is well worth the price. Rating: - Best German NovelThis is the best German novel; mordant, dark, hilarious, packed with the fascinations of Modernism and modern urban life... Joycean literary technique applied by a historical realist to the social life in one of the world's great cities at a critical turning point in its history, it's as close as the German novel can get to Rabelais, Brecht, Joyce and Dickens at the same time. Here's to Franz Biberkopf! 
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