A volume of carefully focused essays illuminating the works of one of the leading 20th-century German writers. Alfred D blin (1878-1957) was one of the great German-Jewish writers of the 20th century, a major figure in the German avant-garde before the First World War and a leading intellectual during the Weimar Republic. D blin greatly influenced the history of the German novel: his best-known work, the best-selling 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz,...