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3: Nature

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Clé publique

doi:10.1017/9781805439158.005

Auteurs

David R. Midgley

Année déclarée

2026

Langue déclarée

en

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book-chapter

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Résumé documentaire — langue originale

Here we consider Döblin's presentation of natural phenomena in a wide range of contexts, starting with the various traditional ways of imagining nature alluded to in his early short stories and then noting the key aspects of the philosophical reflections on nature that he published in various essays of the 1920s and 1930s. The chapter draws attention to a variety of allusions to natural processes that play a part in Döblin's major fictions, notably Manas and Berlin Alexanderplatz , and concludes with a fuller discussion of the terms in which he depicts human interaction with the natural world in the historic past in Amazonas (1937–38; The Land without Death , 2022), and in an imagined future in Berge Meere und Giganten (1924; Mountains Oceans Giants , 2021). The Natural and the Supernatural Döblin's short stories, many of which are now available in an attractive English translation by Damion Searls, vividly illustrate how he went about exploring a wide range of idioms in which human beings have traditionally imagined the world they inhabit. It is in the idiom of gentle fairy tale, for example, that he tells of a clumsy young giant by the name of Wenzel lumbering into the city of Berlin and terrifying the townsfolk, who progressively hound him to his death—whereupon his mother covers his petrified remains beneath a greensward. The word “nature” does not appear in the text, but the allusion to the cliché of “Mother Nature” is unmistakable. When Döblin wrote his own version of the Bluebeard story, by contrast, the range of allusions he wove into his text was considerably more complex.

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OPENALEX

W7165866847

DOI

10.1017/9781805439158.005

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Montagne · Océan

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• DOI · https://doi.org/10.1017/9781805439158.005
• OpenAlex · https://openalex.org/W7165866847

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