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Best books to read after Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin
If Döblin's Berlin modernist epic gripped you, these picks span the great tradition of city novels, German modernism, and the literature of Weimar Germany's brilliant, doomed last years.
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Buy on AmazonUlysses
by James Joyce
The modernist city novel in direct dialogue with Berlin Alexanderplatz — Dublin as a consciousness, the method Döblin adopted and transformed.
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Buy on AmazonThe Tin Drum
by Günter Grass
The next great German novel — Oskar in Danzig from Weimar through the Nazi period, equally ambitious and grotesque.
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Buy on AmazonManhattan Transfer
by John Dos Passos
The contemporaneous American city montage novel — New York as Döblin's Berlin, the same symphonic technique.
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Buy on AmazonSteppenwolf
by Hermann Hesse
Weimar Germany's educated bourgeois in crisis — the same city, the same decade, entirely inward where Döblin is outward.
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Buy on AmazonThe Magic Mountain
by Thomas Mann
Mann's great Weimar-era novel of ideas — the sanatorium as Europe before the war, the intellectual counterpart.
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Buy on AmazonThe Trial
by Franz Kafka
The Central European nightmare in its most concentrated form — Josef K. in a city that is pure bureaucratic dread.
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Buy on AmazonMrs Dalloway
by Virginia Woolf
The modernist city novel from the London side — the same year's consciousness-rendering technique, intimate where Döblin is vast.
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Buy on AmazonPetersburg
by Andrei Bely
The Russian modernist city novel — Petersburg's streets as consciousness, the Symbolist counterpart to Döblin's expressionism.
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