Of the three great German word-artists of the first half of the 20th century, Alfred D blin remains the least known. The other two are Thomas Mann, whose attitude towards D blin ranged from cautious admiration to violent rage; and Berthold Brecht, who learned much from the ideas of his friend D blin. Anglophone readers have almost no source of information about D blin, or about the few works already translated into English (Berlin Alexanderplatz perhaps excepted). In Germany, reliable editions of D blin trickled out between the 1980s (decades after his death in 1957 ) and the 2010s. Academic lit. crit. scholars enjoy tackling aspects of his life and output in ways attractive to other scholars. But little has been done to promote D blin to a wider pool of readers. For the first time, Adventurous Readers provides the inquisitive reader with a map, compass and rations to sustain them as...
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