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  <title><![CDATA[Berlin Alexanderplatz: The Story Of Franz Biberkopf (Continuum Impacts)]]></title>
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  <default_description>&#187;Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anst&#228;ndig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anst&#228;ndig ist, aber das war gewisserma&#223;en nur eine Gnadenfrist. Das Leben findet das auf die Dauer zu fein und stellt ihm hinterlistig ein Bein.&#171;

Die Geschichte des Transportarbeiters Franz Biberkopf, der, aus der Strafanstalt Berlin-Tegel entlassen, als ehrlicher Mann ins Leben zur&#252;ckfinden m&#246;chte, ist der erste deutsche Gro&#223;stadtroman von literarischem Rang. Das Berlin der Zwanziger Jahre ist der Schauplatz des Geschehens. Dabei wird die Gro&#223;stadt selbst zum Gegenspieler des gutm&#252;tig-j&#228;hzornigen Franz Biberkopf, der dieser verlockenden, aber auch unerbittlichen Welt zu trotzen versucht.

Mit Berlin Alexanderplatz vollzog D&#246;blin die radikale Abkehr vom b&#252;rgerlich psychologischen Roman. Hier wurde kein Einzelschicksal analysiert. Das kollektive Geschehen, das Allgemeine einer menschlichen Situation erfuhr hier eine g&#252;ltige dichterische Gestaltung. Der Roman z&#228;hlt zu den gro&#223;en Epen unserer Zeit.</default_description>
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  <original_publication_year type="integer">1929</original_publication_year>
  <original_title>Berlin Alexanderplatz</original_title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Alfred Döblin]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jan 25 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this because I was watching the Fassbinder film, and discovered I had been ignorant of a novel which is considered a masterpiece of modern German literature, published in 1929.<br/><br/>It’s not an easy read, Doblin’s style is reminiscent of James Joyce, hopping about between POV, inter...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42729342">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="42742583">
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      <rating>4</rating>
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  <read_at>Sat Jan 10 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Sun Jan 11 19:35:01 -0800 2009</date_added>
  <date_updated>Tue Jan 20 05:05:55 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[I characterized this as Joycean before realizing that is the most obvious thing anyone says about it, so I am not so perspicacious. Specifically, it makes heavy use of a modernist device in which the narrative mirrors the increasingly &quot;legible&quot; urban landscape - words are crammed everywher...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/42742583">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="41203667">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ryan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Dec 29 12:45:35 -0800 2008</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sat Feb 14 10:26:21 -0800 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This may well be the coolest cover I've ever seen on a novel. And I will concede that the author has a cool first name and has picked an ideal environment for a work of fiction - 1920s Berlin, in the height of burgeoning Nazism, the era of &quot;Cabaret.&quot; And one must concede that Doblin, a psy...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41203667">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="65187694">
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  <read_at>Wed Oct 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Mon Jul 27 16:54:45 -0700 2009</date_added>
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    <body><![CDATA[Until a few months ago I'd never heard of this novel or of Doblin.  When I learned Berlin Alexanderplatz is a technical first cousin to Joyce's Ulysses I became very interested.  In presenting a picture of Weimar-era Berlin through the character of one man, Franz Biberkopf, using elements of stream ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65187694">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="9063924">
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    <name><![CDATA[Kimley]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Los Angeles, CA]]></location>        
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      <rating>3</rating>
  <votes>10</votes>
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  <read_at>Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009</read_at>
  <date_added>Tue Nov 13 12:32:11 -0800 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Sun Oct 04 17:35:32 -0700 2009</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[<blockquote>&quot;There really isn't much to tell about Franz Biberkopf, we know the lad already. You can guess what a sow will do when she gets into her trough. Only a sow is better off than a man, because she's just a lump of flesh and fat, and what can befall her later, doesn't matter much, if only the swill...</blockquote><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9063924">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="3089514">
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  <date_added>Sun Jul 15 00:38:23 -0700 2007</date_added>
  <date_updated>Fri Aug 17 14:29:09 -0700 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[Ladies and gentlemen, may I have your attention please? <br/>It's time to be honest: I've never finished this book. <br/>Indeed I was intrigued by the title, by the fact that I know quite well the place itself - I mean, the square - having spent a month close to it in formerly East Berlin.<br/><br/>...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3089514">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="45261218">
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    <name><![CDATA[Dan]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[This gives a view into 1929 Berlin. I really enjoyed the way Doblin proved a kind of written map of this neiborhood. Concentrating on the speed, sound and advertising.  As for the narrative it is broken and difficult to fallow.  Instead of painting a picture that you look into from the outside, Dobl...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/45261218">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="46710787">
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    <name><![CDATA[Ron]]></name>
    <location><![CDATA[Hamtramck, MI]]></location>        
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    <body><![CDATA[There's a great story hidden under heaps of modernist stylings.  If you're not into modernism, it takes some commitment to dig it out of there.]]></body>
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    <review id="57523300">
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    <name><![CDATA[Stasia]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[ACL has in German]]></body>
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    <review id="15805432">
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    <name><![CDATA[Chris]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[A lousy translation (outdated slang/idioms, clearly written either by a Brit or a non-native speaker) but still amazing. If German expressionist literature from Weimar Republic sounds like fun, this is one to read. I don't think I have much in common with small-time gangsters in Weimar Germany, but ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15805432">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="10502195">
    <user id="42508">
    <name><![CDATA[Greg]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sat Dec 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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  <date_updated>Thu Dec 20 19:54:18 -0800 2007</date_updated>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is so good.  It's like if Dos Passos decided to do USA with one character, and set it in Berlin, and to write sort of in the style of Joyce but also realize that he needed some German so threw in a bunch of devices from Brecht, and then from the future Chris Adrian decided to pay a visit a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/10502195">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="15261078">
    <user id="896867">
    <name><![CDATA[Sarah]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[This is a work of German modernism that I think has been quite overlooked (that seems to be a running theme, though... ). Doblin kind of does to Berlin what Joyce does to Dublin - but Doblin's Berlin is a much darker, more dubious and sinister place. It's kind of a long read - but there are affairs,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15261078">more...</a>]]></body>
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    <review id="44152615">
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    <name><![CDATA[Moxysox]]></name>
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  <read_at>Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[A triumph of style!<br/><br/>The translator Eugene Jolas has done an exemplary job catching all the demotic moods, tones and quirks of speech, music-hall songs etc.<br/><br/>This, surely, must be the best of modernist novels.<br/><br/>Was made into a film by Fassbinder.]]></body>
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    <review id="4313792">
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    <name><![CDATA[Lucinda]]></name>
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    <body><![CDATA[What I'm learning from this book: it's hard to read a German-language stream of consciousness book on the train. This might have to go onto my &quot;prison reading&quot; shelf. You know--the books you'd read if you had nothing but time and a sympathetic jailer.]]></body>
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    <review id="3582137">
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    <name><![CDATA[Max]]></name>
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  <read_at>Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[honestly don't know if I'm going to make it to the end... &quot;the first german novel in the style of James Joyce...&quot;<br/><br/>And I barely slogged through Portrait of the Artist.]]></body>
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    <review id="18147406">
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    <body><![CDATA[This book sums up pretty much a lot of what I love about the dirty underbelly that Berlin always seems to have had and still has... for now.]]></body>
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  <date_added>Fri Nov 16 14:52:47 -0800 2007</date_added>
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