Reading Berlin 1900, Paperback / softback Book

Reading Berlin 1900 Paperback / softback

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The great cities at the turn of the century were mediated by words--newspapers, advertisements, signs, and schedules--by which the inhabitants lived, dreamed, and imagined their surroundings.

In this original study of the classic text of urban modernism--the newspaper page--Peter Fritzsche analyzes how reading and writing dramatized Imperial Berlin and anticipated the modernist sensibility that celebrated discontinuity, instability, and transience.

It is a sharp-edged story with cameo appearances by Georg Simmel, Walter Benjamin, and Alfred Döblin.

This sumptuous history of a metropolis and its social and literary texts provides a rich evocation of a particularly exuberant and fleeting moment in history.

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