Berlin Tales

Author:   Helen Constantine ,  Lyn Marven
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199559381


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   25 June 2009
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Helen Constantine ,  Lyn Marven
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 12.90cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 19.60cm
Weight:   0.273kg
ISBN:  

9780199559381


ISBN 10:   0199559384
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   25 June 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction 1: Siegfried Kracauer: 'Aus dem Fenster gesehen' (Seen From the Window) 2: Alfred Döblin: 'Östlich um den Alexanderplatz' (East of Alexanderplatz) 3: Franz Hessel: excerpt from 'Spazieren in Berlin' (A Flaneur in Berlin) 4: Max Frisch: 'Berlin, November 1947' 5: Uwe Johnson: 'Berliner Stadtbahn' (Berlin S-Bahn) 6: Günter Kunert: 'Alltägliche Geschichte einer Berliner Straße' (Everyday Story of a Berlin Street) 7: Günter de Bruyn: 'Berlin, Große Hamburger' (Große Hamburger Street) 8: Monika Maron: 'Geburtsort Berlin' (Place of Birth: Berlin) 9: Emine Sevgi Özdamar: 'Mein Berlin' (My Berlin) 10: Durs Grünbein: 'Sommerzeit' (Summertime) 11: Inka Bach: 'Besetzer' (Squatters) 12: Annett Gröschner: 'Rest Esplanade' (The Remains of the Hotel Esplanade) 13: Fridolin Schley: 'Das Herz der Republik' (The Heart of the Republic) 14: Carmen Francesca Banciu: 'Berlin ist mein Paris' (Berlin is my Paris) 15: Katrin Röggla: 'fraktionen' (factions) 16: Wladimir Kaminer: 'Stadtführer Berlin' (Berlin Guide) 17: Ulrike Draesner: 'Gina Regina'

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<br> Poignant, and highly reccommended. --Midwest Book Review<br>


<br> Poignant, and highly reccommended. --Midwest Book Review<p><br>


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Lyn Marven is a Lecturer in German at the University of Liverpool; she researches and translates contemporary literature, with a particular interest in Berlin. She obtained her DPhil from Oxford University, and taught there and at Manchester University, as well as living for a time in Berlin. Helen Constantine is editor of the magazine Modern Poetry in Translation and the editor and translator of Paris Tales and French Tales.

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