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The land without death

Part of the The Amazonas trilogy series
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Alfred Doblin (1878-1957) composed his epic trilogy of South America under difficult circumstances of exile.

It was accessible on first publication in 1937-38 only outside Germany, and for only a couple of years before war broke out.

The first postwar edition, like others of Doblin's works apart from Berlin Alexanderplatz, was little noticed in a Germany traumatised by Nazism and defeat.

Neither the pre-war not the first post-war edition explicitly linked the separate volumes as parts of a unitary work.

In the 1960s the separate novels were first brought together by Walter Muschg, editor of the first series of Doblin's 'selected works', under the overall title Amazonas.

Muschg, however, decided to cut Volume 3 entirely. Not until 1973 did the trilogy first appear in full, in East Germany.

Another 15 years passed before the first complete edition in West Germany.

So only in the past three or four decades has this work begun to receive the critical attention it richly deserves.

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Product Details
Galileo
1912916835 / 9781912916832
eBook (EPUB)
833.912
27/10/2022
United Kingdom
English
448 pages
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