Berlin Alexanderplatz
Döblin's novel of an ex-convict trying to go straight in the streets of 1920s Berlin.
Why it was banned: Burned in the Nazi book burnings of 1933; Döblin, who was Jewish, had already left Germany.
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At a glance
- Shelf status
- In print
- Banned by
- A government
- Banned in
- Germany
- Why it was banned
- Burned in the Nazi book burnings of 1933; Döblin, who was Jewish, had already left Germany.
- Author
- Alfred Döblin
- Topics
- German fiction, German language books, Germanic literature, Berlin (germany), fiction, Popular culture, Ex-convicts
- First published
- 1929
- Shelf note
- In print; ban history from the public record.
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Library record on Open Library
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