3 Ergebnisse.

The return of the troops from the front forms a close unity with the previous installment of this cycle, The People Betrayed, and in them Döblin shows a Berlin where some inhabitants live in miserable conditions, while others know how to take advantage of the opportunities that war offers unscrupulous merchants, large and small swindlers, and also political opportunists. The shock represents for those who return from the war front the attempt ...

In this first installment, a large part of the narrative tension generated by Döblin resides in the sharp contrast between the efforts of the Spartacist leader Karl Liebknecht to mobilize the proletariat against the established power and, on the other hand, the pacts that the leader of the assembly of The representatives of the people try to establish with the high military command. A true fresco of the social and political environment of a de...

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