Manas
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…
Specifikacia Manas
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