Bright Magic: Stories

Bright Magic: Stories

Alfred DÃ¶blinâ€™s many imposing novels, above all Berlin Alexanderplatz, have established him as one of the titans of modern German literature. This collection of his stories â€”astonishingly, the first ever to appear in Englishâ€”shows him to have been a master of short fiction too.

Bright Magic includes all of DÃ¶blinâ€™s first book, The Murder of a Buttercup, a work of savage brilliance and a landmark of literary expressionism, as well as two longer stories composed in the 1940s, when he lived in exile in Southern California. The early collection is full of mind-bending and sexually charged narratives, from the dizzying descent into madness that has made the title story one of the most anthologized of German stories to â€œShe Who Helped,â€ where mortality roams the streets of nineteenth-Âcentury Manhattan with a white borzoi and a quiet smile, and â€œThe Ballerina and the Body,â€ which describes a terrible duel to the death. Of the two later stories, â€œMaterialism, A Fable,â€ in which news of humanityâ€™s soulless doctrines reaches the animals, elements, and the molecules themselves, is especially delightful.
Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 24986417
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2016-10-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590179734

You might also like...