Alfred D blin's many imposing novels, above all Berlin Alexanderplatz, 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. Bright Magic includes all of D blin's first book, The Murder of a Buttercup, a work of savage brilliance and a landmark of literary expressionism,...