4 April 1974: WL Webb reviews a reissue of Alfred Döblin’s classic novel about a small-time crook in Weimar-era Berlin
Alexanderplatz, by Alfred Döblin, translated by Eugene Jolas (Secker & Warburg, £3).
Alexanderplatz is the great showplace of East Berlin now, with a towering hotel block in People’s Hilton style, the House of the Teachers, with its jolly bash of epic mural, and a big department store and shops grouped around a wide and windy pedestrian precinct. In the evenings it’s often weirdly empty: the scale makes the few people that are about look like the sparse lay figures of an architect’s drawing.
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Author : WL Webb
Publish date : 2024-03-27 11:38:24
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