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020			_a9780141191621
082			_a843.912 _b DOB
100			_aDoblin, Alfred
245			_aBerlin Alexanderplatz
260			_bPenguin Books, _c2018 _aLondon :
300			_avii, 457 p. ; _c20 cm
365			_b499.00 _cINR _d00
490			_aPenguin modern classics
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references. Translated from the German.
520			_aFranz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds himself thwarted by an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Cheated, humiliated, thrown from a moving car; embroiled in an underworld of pimps, thugs, drunks and prostitutes, Franz picks himself up over and over again, until one day he is struck a monstrous blow which might just prove his final downfall. A collage of newspaper reports, Biblical stories, drinking songs and urban slang, Berlin Alexanderplatz is the great novel of Berlin life: inventing, styling and recreating the city as reality and dream; mimicking its movements and rhythms; immortalizing its pubs, abattoirs, apartments and chaotic streets. From the gutter to the stars, this is the whole picture of the city.
650			_aGermany, Berlin
650			_aEx-convicts
650			_aMurderers
650			_aGerman fiction
650			_aPolitical fiction
650			_aMurder
650			_aNational socialism
650			_aProstitutes
710			_aHofmann, Michael tr.
942			_2ddc _cBK