Wallenstein. 1
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Who it's for
A good fit for
- Literary readers with German reading ability who are interested in modernist historical narrative
- German majors studying German literature who need to engage with Döblin's work
- Readers interested in historical fiction set against the Thirty Years' War
Not a good fit for
- General readers with no German who expect a Chinese translation
- Readers who want only tightly plotted historical stories with clear character lines
- Readers wholly unfamiliar with the Thirty Years' War who are unwilling to fill in the background
Reading tips
- First fill in the basic outline of the Thirty Years' War and the main character relationships, then enter the text.
- Treat Part One as the first half of a single narrative and continue into Part Two before judging it.
- Watch for shifts in narrative perspective; you need not trace every sentence back to historical fact.
- For the German text, use an annotated edition or an introduction to literary history to lower the threshold.
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Contents
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About the author
Alfred Döblin (1878–1957) was a German novelist, essayist and physician, and a representative of expressionist narrative. He first displayed his narrative experiments in the short-story collection The Murder of a Buttercup and Other Stories, and later expanded his subjects and forms in the two-volume historical novel Wallenstein and the China-set novel The Three Leaps of Wang-lun. His masterpiece Berlin Alexanderplatz depicts the life of the metropolis through montage, interior monologue and Berlin dialect. In 1933 he went into exile in France and the United States, returning to Europe after the war; his works run to more than thirty volumes. Five of his works are held here, commonly classified under inspirational growth; public information is limited, so this introduction focuses on his subjects and style.
