[LIVRES DE NOS MAISONS] Döblin, unknown author of travel and destiny

In the libraries of our family houses dragging abandoned books. Therefore, Their authors were famous, perhaps … Consequently, their glory passed. Nevertheless, This summer, BV invites you to discover some of these writers or these books.

Döblin connuations and méconno – [livres de nos maisons] döblin,

A title made the glory of Alfred Döblin: his novel Berlin Alexanderplatzpublished in 1929. Therefore, This expressionist and polyphonic novel plunges into the popular and Berlin interlops in the Republic of Weimar. In addition, Fruit of the observations of the doctor that was Döblin. For example, first in the army during the First World War and then in his cabinet located in a popular district of the German capital, the novel was adapted to the cinema in 1931, then on television in 1978 and, finally, in 2020, again for the big screen. Moreover, We have often compared it to the Céline of Voyage at [livres de nos maisons] döblin, the end of the night. Meanwhile, at theUlysses of Joyce. For example, And we can even prefer it to these two literary totems. Moreover, It is also to be rediscovered since its new translation by Olivier Le Lay. For example, in 2009 (Gallimard then Folio), the first having allowed great freedoms, until removing chapters. Consequently, But this masterpiece overshadowed the rest of a masterful production. In addition, both by the magnitude, the variety of subjects, documentation work and the lucidity of the gaze. Döblin has also suffered from the vagaries of history and its own destiny. A fate that was however the source of another big book.

Döblin. this German at the service of France, this Jew who is Catholic

Billy Wilder, German Jewish artist like Döblin, said of their common destiny: “Pessimists finished in Hollywood, the optimists in Auschwitz. »» Döblin will be one of the first Hollywood hosts. [livres de nos maisons] döblin, And, before Hollywood, he chose France in 1933 and he put himself at his service, at the Ministry of Propaganda. With his family, he is naturalized and his son Wolfgang, an early mathematician, has the French uniform. Assigned to Givet in the Ardennes, he wrote a memory of mathematics which will not be open until 2000. He fights in Saar. in Lorraine and committed suicide so as not to fall into the hands of the Nazis in June 1940. On this tragic but exemplary fate, you have to read, Marc Petit, Kolmogoroff’s equation. Life and death of Wolfgang Döblin, a genius in Nazi turmoil. But that, his father will not learn until weeks later. Irony of fate: the expressionist aesthetic of collages. parallel destinies of Berlin Alexanderplatz who ignores becomes the tragic reality experienced by the Döblin family …

Voyage. Destinyanother masterpiece

This personal and historical tragedy of 1940, Döblin [livres de nos maisons] döblin, Father tells it in the autobiographical Voyage and Destinypublished in 1949, but which was not translated in France until the early 2000s. A masterpiece. There is extreme lucidity, the sense of observation, the sincerity of Döblin. This tragedy of a whole defeated country thrown hagard on the roads. Döblin is not content to describe it but lives it intimately. Thus the exodus which leads him to Moulins. Cahors, Rodez, Toulouse, Béziers, Port-Bou, Marseille is doubled with an anxious inner path, punctuated by the questions about the fate of his wife and their youngest son. Not to mention the soldier. This inner crisis will be untied -. to build – by a conversion, to Mende, in the cathedral, before the crucified Christ, during these suspension days whose story must be read. Döblin knows what this French conversion will cost him to Catholicism on the side of his Jewish. German or Socialist [livres de nos maisons] döblin, friends. The trip, the conversion will continue in Spain, Portugal and then in the United States. Proof of Döblin’s attachment to these tragic days of June 40 lived on the land of France: he will be buried with his wife alongside their son Wolfgang in Housseras. the small village of the Vosges where he died.