--- product_id: 344526641 title: "Berlin Alexanderplatz" price: "€ 16.45" currency: EUR in_stock: true reviews_count: 6 url: https://www.desertcart.at/products/344526641-berlin-alexanderplatz store_origin: AT region: Austria --- # Berlin Alexanderplatz **Price:** € 16.45 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Berlin Alexanderplatz - **How much does it cost?** € 16.45 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.at](https://www.desertcart.at/products/344526641-berlin-alexanderplatz) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description The great novel of 1920s Berlin life, in a superb new translation by Michael Hofmann Franz 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. A dazzling collage of newspaper reports, Biblical stories, drinking songs and urban slang, Berlin Alexanderplatz is the great novel of Berlin life: inventing, styling and recreating the city as reality and dream; mimicking its movements and rhythms; immortalizing its pubs, abattoirs, apartments and chaotic streets. From the gutter to the stars, this is the whole picture of the city. Berlin Alexanderplatz brought fame in 1929 to its author Alfred Döblin, until then an impecunious writer and doctor in a working-class neighbourhood in the east of Berlin. Success at home was short-lived, however; Doblin, a Jew, left Germany the day after the Reichstag Fire in 1933, and did not return until 1945. This landmark translation by Michael Hofmann is the first to do justice to Berlin Alexanderplatz in English, brilliantly capturing the energy, prodigality and inventiveness of Döblin's masterpiece. Review: Bad print - Bad paper quality. Poor print Review: I'd give this 6 stars if I could - Astonishing. What a ride! I haven't read anything so good for a long time, in fact maybe never. We follow a short period in the protagonist Franz's petty, criminal life, as he moves from bar to bar, job to job, girl to girl, and tries to go straight after release from prison, in a wild stream-of-consciousness tour de force that is so much more than just a novel. It is interspersed randomly and somewhat chaotically with scenes from Berlin life - the abattoir (nauseating and heartbreaking), the theatre advert (made me laugh out loud) - and is strewn with parts of the Bible and classic myths, word-plays, tenderness and violence. The crazy jumble of language and action is incredible. Read it. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #133,487 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #3,972 in Classic Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.3 out of 5 stars 598 Reviews | ## Images ![Berlin Alexanderplatz - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81dG7+UFTML.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐ Bad print *by A***E on 11 December 2023* Bad paper quality. Poor print ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I'd give this 6 stars if I could *by H***E on 29 October 2024* Astonishing. What a ride! I haven't read anything so good for a long time, in fact maybe never. We follow a short period in the protagonist Franz's petty, criminal life, as he moves from bar to bar, job to job, girl to girl, and tries to go straight after release from prison, in a wild stream-of-consciousness tour de force that is so much more than just a novel. It is interspersed randomly and somewhat chaotically with scenes from Berlin life - the abattoir (nauseating and heartbreaking), the theatre advert (made me laugh out loud) - and is strewn with parts of the Bible and classic myths, word-plays, tenderness and violence. The crazy jumble of language and action is incredible. Read it. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A work of the most staggering genius *by T***F on 25 December 2020* As Joyce's Ulysses is the great novel of Dublin, this, assuredly, is the great novel of Berlin. Michael Hoffmann as translater is fully equal to the task .. I read it and then I read it again. It continues to startle. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.at/products/344526641-berlin-alexanderplatz](https://www.desertcart.at/products/344526641-berlin-alexanderplatz) --- *Product available on Desertcart Austria* *Store origin: AT* *Last updated: 2026-06-03*