| Bright Magic: Stories Contributor(s): Doblin, Alfred (Author), Searls, Damion (Translator), Grass, Gunter (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590179730 ISBN-13: 9781590179734 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $14.36 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Psychological - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2015040622 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5" W x 8" (0.50 lbs) 240 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Alfred D blin'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 --astonishingly, the first ever to appear in English--shows him to have been a master of short fiction too. Bright Magic includes all of D blin'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 "She Who Helped," where mortality roams the streets of nineteenth-century Manhattan with a white borzoi and a quiet smile, and "The Ballerina and the Body," which describes a terrible duel to the death. Of the two later stories, "Materialism, A Fable," in which news of humanity's soulless doctrines reaches the animals, elements, and the molecules themselves, is especially delightful. |