Berlin Childhood around 1900

5 best books like Berlin Childhood around 1900 (Walter Benjamin): Berlin Alexanderplatz, Lieutenant Gustl, The Emigrants, Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors, Biedermann und die Brandstifter

AuthorAlfred Döblin
ISBN3423002956
Biberkopf hat geschworen, er will anständig sein, und ihr habt gesehen, wie er wochenlang anständig ist, aber das war gewissermaßen nur eine Gnadenfrist. Das Leben findet das auf die Dauer zu fein und stellt ihm hinterlistig ein Bein. Die Geschichte des Transportarbeiters Franz Biberkopf, der,...
AuthorArthur Schnitzler
ISBN1557131767
Viennese author Schnitzler's brief 1901 novel depicts the Austrian crisis at the turn of the century and the impending collapse of the dream of the empire. Bored at the opera, egocentric young Lieutenant Gustl contemplates which women are flirting with him; the fact that there are too many Jews in the...
The Emigrants
AuthorW.G. Sebald
ISBN0099448882
At first The Emigrants appears simply to document the lives of four Jewish émigrés in the twentieth century. But gradually, as Sebald's precise, almost dreamlike prose begins to draw their stories, the four narrations merge into one overwhelming evocation of exile and loss.

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Illness as Metaphor & AIDS and Its Metaphors
AuthorSusan Sontag
ISBN0312420137
In 1978 Susan Sontag wrote Illness as Metaphor, a classic work described by Newsweek as "one of the most liberating books of its time." A cancer patient herself when she was writing the book, Sontag shows how the metaphors and myths surrounding certain illnesses, especially cancer, add greatly to the...
Biedermann und die Brandstifter
AuthorMax Frisch
ISBN3518390457
Das Stück ist die Geschichte des Bürgers Gottlieb Biedermann, der die Brandstifter in sein Haus einlädt, um von ihnen verschont zu werden. Es entlarvt präzise eines Geisteshaltung, die der Technik des Totalitären zum Erfolg verhilft. Bidermann und die Brandstifter - eine politische Parabel,...
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