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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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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 Classics
New York Review Books classics
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Searls, Damion, translator.
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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
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