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Bright magic : stories / Alfred Döblin ; Selected and translated from the German by Damion Searls ; introduction by Günter Grass.
- Title
- Bright magic : stories / Alfred Döblin ; 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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Details
- Additional Authors
- Searls, Damion
- Description
- xiv, 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
- New York Review Books classics
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. Selections. English
- New York Review Books classics
- Alternative Title
- Short stories.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Short stories
- Short stories, German.
- Fiktionale Darstellung
- Erzählende Literatur
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Part 1: Early stories: The murder of a buttercup (written 1904-11, published 1912) -- The sailboat ride -- The ballerina and the body -- Astralia -- The immaculate conception -- The metamorphosis -- She who helped -- The wrong door -- The murder of a buttercup -- Bluebeard the knight -- The other man -- Memoirs of a jaded man -- The canoness and death.
- Part 2: Late tales: A fiary tale of technology (1935) -- A little fable (1937) -- Bright magic (written 1940-45, published 1948) -- Traffic with the beyond -- Materialism, a fable -- Five incomprehensible stories (1947-48) -- The eruption of Mt. Vesuvius -- The origins of caviar -- The library -- Max -- What people mean by cow's cheese.
- ISBN
- 9781590179734
- 1590179730
- LCCN
- ^^2015040622
- OCLC
- 929917282
- SCSB-12700938
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library