Berlin Alexanderplatz
Author: Döblin, Alfred
ISBN: 9780141191621
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 04 Jun 2019
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback / softback
The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann
The subject of this book is the life of the former cement-worker and haulier Franz Biberkopf in Berlin. As our story begins, he has just been released from prison, where he did time for some stupid stuff, and now he is back in Berlin, determined to go straight.
To begin with, he succeeds. But then he gets involved in a set-to with an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate.
To see and hear this will be worthwhile for many readers who, like Franz Biberkopf, fill out a human skin, but, again like Franz Biberkopf, happen to want more from life than a piece of bread . . .
ISBN: 9780141191621
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 04 Jun 2019
Pages: 480
Format: Paperback / softback
The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb translation by Michael Hofmann
The subject of this book is the life of the former cement-worker and haulier Franz Biberkopf in Berlin. As our story begins, he has just been released from prison, where he did time for some stupid stuff, and now he is back in Berlin, determined to go straight.
To begin with, he succeeds. But then he gets involved in a set-to with an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate.
To see and hear this will be worthwhile for many readers who, like Franz Biberkopf, fill out a human skin, but, again like Franz Biberkopf, happen to want more from life than a piece of bread . . .
