History as Trash: Reading Berlin 2000

Abstract

The expectation that Berlin, at the cusp of the twenty-first century, should produce "big-city" novels that, like Döblin's Berlin Alexanderplatz in its own time, would catch the encounters, juxtapositions, and historical layerings of the newly reunified capital is perhaps unfair, and certainly a high bar, but it reflects widespread interest in literary representations of this brazenly, even insolently transformed city...

Keywords:

• twenty-first century Keyword: twenty-first century
• novel Keyword: novel
• Berlin Keyword: Berlin
• big city Keyword: big city
• Döblin Keyword: Döblin
• Berlin Alexanderplatz Keyword: Berlin Alexanderplatz
• reunified capital Keyword: reunified capital
• reunification Keyword: reunification
• capital city Keyword: capital city

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