by Alfred Döblin · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9788817020787
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«Berlin Alexanderplatz» is Alfred Döblin's novel, published by Rizzoli in paperback (513 pages, in Italian).
Franz Biberkopf leaves prison determined to lead an honest life in the Berlin of the late twenties. He soon discovers that the city, with its temptations and violence, puts his purpose to the test. Döblin tells his story with a polyphonic and experimental technique: monologues, news items, songs and anonymous voices turn the narrative into a portrait of the era.
Italian edition of 2008, with translation by Alberto Spaini and introduction by Walter Benjamin; the novel was originally published in 1929.
A reference work for those interested in twentieth-century German literature and European expressionist narrative.
Bruno Alfred Döblin was a German novelist, essayist, and doctor, best known for his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929). A prolific writer whose œuvre spans more than half a century and a wide variety of literary movements and styles, Döblin is one of the most important figures of German literary modernism. His complete works comprise over a dozen novels ranging in genre from historical novels to science fiction to novels about the modern metropolis; several dramas, radio plays, and screenplays; a true crime story; a travel account; two book-length philosophical treatises; scores of essays on politics, religion, art, and society; and numerous letters—his complete works, republished by Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag and Fischer Verlag, span more than thirty volumes. His first published novel, Die drei Sprünge des Wang-lung, appeared in 1915 and his final novel, Hamlet oder Die lange Nacht nimmt ein Ende was published in 1956, one year before his death.
