Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin and for whom the key

and for whom the key to survival lay not in hope but in despair

Louis Barthas

Pages: 462

It is still the eighteenth of November

Both are now adults

Berlin Alexanderplatz - Alfred Döblin and for whom the keyFranz Biberkopf is back on the streets of Berlin. Determined to go straight after a stint in prison, he finds himself thwarted by an unpredictable external agency that looks an awful lot like fate. Cheated, humiliated, thrown from a moving car; embroiled in an underworld of pimps, thugs, drunks and prostitutes, Franz picks himself up over and over again until one day he is struck a monstrous blow which might just prove his final downfall. Original