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Revolution and Redemption: Alfred Döblin's November 1918

Author: Hofmann, Klaus

Source: The Modern Language Review, Volume 103, Number 2, 1 April 2008 , pp. 471-489(19)

Publisher: Modern Humanities Research Association

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Abstract:

This article focuses on the heterogeneity of Döblin's November 1918, indicated on the one hand by this title and on the other by that given on the dust-jacket of Part III in the 1950 edition: Karl und Rosa. Eine Geschichte zwischen Himmel und Hölle von Alfred Döblin. The novel's two strata are highlighted, with an emphasis on the `story between heaven and hell', which conflates the historical novel with a different genre in the tradition of the religious epic and the theatrum mundi, Milton's Paradise Lost and Goethe's Faust functioning as perspective points of orientation.

Keywords: heterogeneity; Döblin's; November 1918; historical novel; religious epic; theatrum mundi; Paradise Lost; Faust

Document Type: Research article

Affiliations: 1: University of Frankfurt am Main

Publication date: 2008-04-01

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