Reading Berlin 1900 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780674748828)

The great cities at the turn of the century were mediated by words--newspapers, advertisements, signs, and schedules--by which the inhabitants lived, dreamed, and imagined their surroundings. In this original study of the classic text of urban modernism--the newspaper page--Peter Fritzsche analyzes how reading and writing dramatized Imperial Berlin and anticipated the modernist sensibility that celebrated discontinuity, instability, and transience. It is a sharp-edged story with cameo appearances by Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, and Alfred D blin. This sumptuous history of a metropolis and its social and literary texts provides a rich evocation of a particularly exuberant and fleeting moment in history.

Author: Peter Fritzsche
ISBN-10: 0674748824
ISBN-13: 9780674748828
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 01/20/1998
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.52w x 0.83d