Berlin Alexanderplatz. The story of Franz Biberkopf

Alfred Döblin (1878–1957) is a German writer, known primarily for the experimental novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), which today is considered one of the most important German-language prose works of the 20th century, and also for the novel Sea Mountains and Giants (1924). created at the intersection of futurology, fiction, dystopia and absurdity.

In "Berlin Alexanderplatz" Deblin demonstrates a rather peculiar and original vision of the novel narrative technique, in which he used the techniques of collage, stream of consciousness and reproduction of the real specific speech of the street, without the usual author's literary treatment.

A neurologist by profession, Deblin practiced in East Berlin in the twenties of the last century, and this experience formed the basis of "Berlin Alexanderplatz", allowing its author to literally make a mold of the life of Berlin at that time and transfer it to the pages of the novel in all its kaleidoscopic multifaceted diversity. The novel was adapted several times and became the basis of the cult film of the same name by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1980).