{"product_id":"bright-magic-alfred-doblin-9781590179734","title":"Bright Magic: Stories","description":"Alfred D blin's many imposing novels, above all \u003ci\u003eBerlin Alexanderplatz\u003c\/i\u003e, have established him as one of the titans of modern German literature. This collection of his stories --astonishingly, the first ever to appear in English--shows him to have been a master of short fiction too. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eBright Magic\u003c\/i\u003e includes all of D blin's first book, \u003ci\u003eThe Murder of a Buttercup\u003c\/i\u003e, a work of savage brilliance and a landmark of literary expressionism, as well as two longer stories composed in the 1940s, when he lived in exile in Southern California. The early collection is full of mind-bending and sexually charged narratives, from the dizzying descent into madness that has made the title story one of the most anthologized of German stories to \"She Who Helped,\" where mortality roams the streets of nineteenth-­century Manhattan with a white borzoi and a quiet smile, and \"The Ballerina and the Body,\" which describes a terrible duel to the death. Of the two later stories, \"Materialism, A Fable,\" in which news of humanity's soulless doctrines reaches the animals, elements, and the molecules themselves, is especially delightful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alfred Doblin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590179730\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590179734\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/25\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.40d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/06\/2016","brand":"Alfred Doblin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43995777892607,"sku":"9781590179734","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f51325d2-8544-4e33-b031-78e1c7b15294.jpg?v=1683337794","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/bright-magic-alfred-doblin-9781590179734","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}