Of the three great German word-artists of the first half of the 20th century, Alfred D blin remains the least known. The other two are Thomas Mann, whose attitude towards D blin ranged from cautious admiration to violent rage; and Berthold Brecht, who learned much from the ideas of his friend D blin. Anglophone readers have almost no source of information about D blin, or about the few works already translated into English (Berlin Alexanderplatz perhaps...