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Bright Magic: Stories (New York Review Books Classics)
Bright Magic Stories - New York Review Books Classics Author:Alfred Doblin Alfred Döblin was a titan of modern German literature. This collection of stories?astonishingly, the first collection of his stories ever published in English?shows him to have been equally adept in shorter forms. — — Included in its entirety is Döblin?s first book, The Murder of a Buttercup, a work of savage brilliance and a landmark of literar... more »y expressionism. Mortality roams the streets of nineteenth-century Manhattan, with a white borzoi and a quiet smile. A ballerina duels to the death with the stupid childish body she is bound to. We experience, in the celebrated title story, a dizzying descent into a shattered mind. The collection is then rounded off with two longer stories written when Döblin was in exile from Nazi Germany in Southern California, including the delightful ?Materialism: A Fable,? in which news of humanity?s soulless doctrines spreads to the animals, elements, and molecules of nature.« less