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History as Trash: Reading Berlin 2000

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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, novel, Berlin, big city, Döblin, Berlin Alexanderplatz, reunified capital, reunification, capital city

How to Cite: Fritzsche, P. (2004) “History as Trash: Reading Berlin 2000”, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature. 28(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.4148/2334-4415.1569