TY  - BOOK
AU  - Döblin,Alfred
AU  - Hofmann,Michael
TI  - Berlin Alexanderplatz
T2  - Penguin modern classics
SN  - 9780141191621 (pbk.) :
AV  - PT2607.O35 
U1  - 843.912 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - London
PB  - Penguin Classics
KW  - Nineteen twenties
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Berlin (Germany)
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - 20th century
KW  - General
KW  - ukslc
KW  - Fiction in Translation
N1  - Translated from the German
N2  - Franz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds himself thwarted by an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Cheated, humiliated, thrown from a moving car; embroiled in an underworld of pimps, thugs, drunks and prostitutes, Franz picks himself up over and over again - until one day he is struck a monstrous blow which might just prove his final downfall. A dazzling collage of newspaper reports, Biblical stories, drinking songs and urban slang, 'Berlin Alexanderplatz' is the great novel of Berlin life: inventing, styling and recreating the city as reality and dream; mimicking its movements and rhythms; immortalizing its pubs, abattoirs, apartments and chaotic streets
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