The setting is 1920s Berlin, cultural heart of Europe and the era's only serious cinematic rival to Hollywood. In his engaging study, Thomas Saunders explores a

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Jelavich examines Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel 'Berlin Alexanderplatz', which questioned the autonomy & coherence of the human personality in the modern metropol

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