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001 2015040622
003 DLC
005 20151219083033.0
008 151217s2016 nyu 000 1 eng
010 $a 2015040622
020 $a9781590179734 (paperback)
040 $aDLC$beng$erda$cDLC
041 1 $aeng$hger
042 $apcc
050 00 $aPT2607.O35$bA2 2016
082 00 $a833/.912$223
084 $aFIC029000$aFIC025000$aFIC019000$2bisacsh
100 1 $aDöblin, Alfred,$d1878-1957,$eauthor.
240 10 $aShort stories.$kSelections.$lEnglish
245 10 $aBright magic :$bstories /$cby Alfred Doblin ; translated by Damion Searls ; introduction by Günter Grass.
263 $a1608
264 1 $aNew York :$bNew York Review Books,$c2016.
300 $apages cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
490 0 $aNYRB Classics
520 $a"Alfred Doblin was a titan of modern German literature. This collection of stories--astonishingly, the first collection of his stories ever published in English--shows him to have been equally adept in shorter forms. Included in its entirety is Doblin's first book, The Murder of a Buttercup, a work of savage brilliance and a landmark of literary expressionism. Mortality roams the streets of nineteenth-century Manhattan, with a white borzoi and a quiet smile. A ballerina duels to the death with the stupid childish body she is bound to. We experience, in the celebrated title story, a dizzying descent into a shattered mind. The collection is then rounded off with two longer stories written when Doblin was in exile from Nazi Germany in Southern California, including the delightful "Materialism: A Fable," in which news of humanity's soulless doctrines spreads to the animals, elements, and molecules of nature"--$cProvided by publisher.
650 7 $aFICTION / Short Stories (single author).$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Psychological.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
700 1 $aSearls, Damion,$etranslator.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aDöblin, Alfred, 1878-1957, author.$tBright magic$dNew York : New York Review Books, 2016$z9781590179741$w(DLC) 2015050009
856 42 $3Cover image$u9781590179734.jpg