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Bright magic : stories
- Title
- Bright magic : stories / Alfred Doblin ; Selected and translated from the German by Damion Searls ; introduction by Günter Grass.
- Author
- Döblin, Alfred, 1878-1957
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, 2016.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 17-508 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Searls, Damion
- Description
- 210 pages; 21 cm
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- NYRB Classics
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. Selections. English
- New York Review Books classics
- Alternative Title
- Short stories.
- Subject
- Short stories, German
- Call Number
- JFD 17-508
- ISBN
- 9781590179734
- 1590179730
- LCCN
- 2015040622
- OCLC
- 929917282
- Author
- Döblin, Alfred, 1878-1957, author.
- Title
- Bright magic : stories / Alfred Doblin ; Selected and translated from the German by Damion Searls ; introduction by Günter Grass.
- Publisher
- New York : New York Review Books, 2016.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- NYRB ClassicsNew York Review Books classics
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Searls, Damion, translator.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Döblin, Alfred, 1878-1957, author. Bright magic. New York : New York Review Books, 2016 9781590179741 (DLC) 2015050009
- Research Call Number
- JFD 17-508
