Name: Manas, Paperback/Alfred D blin
Brand: Galileo Publishers
Price: 93.99 RON
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This remarkable book " an exciting and intriguing story, a blend of Hindu mythology and existentialism and told with great verve in a vigorous, direct language of many moods and voices " is one of the major fictions Alfred D blin produced over the forty tumultuous years pre-World War 1 to post-World War 2. D blin himself is one of the least known of the twentieth century (TM)s great German writers, though his reputation has grown in Germany since his death in 1957: smart new editions appear every decade or so, and streams of books, journal articles and scholarly colloquia examine aspects of his art and his thinking. The Anglophone reader comes to D blin with little idea what to expect. Maybe a vague knowledge of that one title from his vast output: Berlin Alexanderplatz " The Story of Franz Biberkopf. The next novel after Manas, it has eclipsed all the rest ever since its publication in 1929. D blin (TM)s reputation rests largely on the major fictions he called epics (TM). He wanted a new kind of fiction, a break from the bourgeois novel: no more playing with plot (TM), suspense (TM), individuals (TM) with invented psychologies (TM), no more cheap eroticism. D blin (TM)s fictions " all substantial works: Wallenstein, the Amazonas trilogy, November 1918 are each three to four times longer than Manas " are best conceived, he said, as symphonies. They proceed not so much by plot-action (though Manas does have a very forward-moving plot) as by themes and motifs that swell and fad