To novelists and their critics. Berlin program

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To novelists and their critics. Berliner Programm is a font by the writer Alfred Döblin from 1913. The text appeared in the magazine Der Sturm in May. In it Döblin drafts a “radical novel poetics”, whereby he laid the “foundation stone for the montage novel”.

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Döblin rejects the conventional working methods for creating a novel, which he sees in a tradition from Homer to Cervantes . The renewal of the novel should begin with the author himself. In contrast to his predecessors, he should no longer linger in his isolation, but seek the public. Furthermore, according to Döblin, psychology is no longer suitable for the renewal of prose , since it is merely "an amateurish guesswork, scholastic talk, maddening bombast, missed, hypocritical poetry". He argues that psychology is an attempt to rationalize art, which is equivalent to the “death of art”. On the other hand, the neurologist Döblin recommends psychiatry , the "only science that deals with the whole human soul". Furthermore, he calls for a “cinema style”, the breaking up of the linear narrative. Stylistic devices such as the picture, on the other hand, are rejected or should rarely be used because they can be created without any problems. The author's disappearance, called Depersonation by Döblin , culminates in his statement: “I am not me, but the street is the lantern, this and this event, nothing more”.

In addition, the clinging to a protagonist is attacked, since the complexity of the world is dissolved in favor of the character. The essay ends with the request: “The novel must experience its rebirth as a work of art and a modern epic”.

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Text output

  • Alfred Döblin: To novelists and their critics. Berlin program. In: Alfred Döblin writings on aesthetics, poetics and literature. Walter Verlag, Freiburg 1989, ISBN 3-530-16697-9 .
  • Alfred Döblin: To novelists and their critics. Berlin program. In: Alfred Döblin: Writings on aesthetics, poetics and literature. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, pp. 118–121, ISBN 978-3-596-90462-4 .

Essays

  • Luca Renzi: Alfred Döblin - the image of modernity in his epic theory. In: Sabina Becker and Helmuth Kiesel (eds.): Literary Modernism. Concept and phenomenon. Berlin, 2007, pp. 181-198.
  • Gabriele Sander: Alfred Döblin and metropolitan realism. In: Distl, Neuhaus, Selbmann, Spalek, Unger (eds.): Realistic writing in the Weimar Republic. Würzburg, 2006, pp. 139–150.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Erich Kleinschmidt: Literature as an experiment . In: Musil Forum. Studies on the literature of classical modernism. Edited by Matthias Luserke-Jaqui and Rosmarie Zeller. Walter de Gruyter, Berlin 2003. p. 27.
  2. ^ Gabriele Sander: Alfred Döblin and the metropolitan realism In: Realistic writing in the Weimar Republic. Writings of the Ernst Toller Society . Vol. 5 edited by Distl, Neuhaus, Selbmann, Spalek, Unger. Königshausen and Neumann, Würzburg 2006. p. 140.
  3. ^ A b c Alfred Döblin: To novelists and their critics. Berlin program. In: Essays on literature. Selected works in individual volumes. Edited by Walter Muschg in connection with the poet's sons. Vol. 8. Walter Verlag, Breisgau 1963. p. 16.
  4. ^ Alfred Döblin: To novelists and their critics. Berlin program. Walter Verlag, Breisgau 1963. p. 17.
  5. ^ Alfred Döblin: To novelists and their critics. Berlin program. Walter Verlag, Breisgau 1963. p. 18.
  6. ^ Alfred Döblin: To novelists and their critics. Berlin program. Walter Verlag, Breisgau 1963. p. 19.