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Title: Berge Meere und Giganten : Roman
Original Publication: Berlin: S. Fischer, 1924.
Note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berge_Meere_und_Giganten https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berge_Meere_und_Giganten
Credits: Jens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.
Summary: "Berge Meere und Giganten" by Alfred Döblin is a novel written in the early 20th century. The book is likely a speculative or science-fictional epic, exploring the evolution and transformation of society, technology, and power structures across centuries. Rather than following a single protagonist, the narrative seems to focus on broad societal shifts and collective characters as humanity confronts monumental changes and challenges. The opening of the book is dense and sweeping, outlining the aftermath of a cataclysmic war and the subsequent transformation of human civilization. Döblin employs poetic, almost mystical language to describe the forces of nature and humanity's entanglement with them, painting a picture of a world where technology, social upheaval, and cultural fusion reshape continents. The narrative quickly moves into depictions of the rise and fall of populations, the dominance of machinery and industry, societal unrest, and power struggles among ruling classes in a futuristic vision of Europe and Africa. Personal conflicts and collective anxieties about identity, tradition, and adaptation to change are touched on through illustrative episodes, providing a vivid panorama of a world in flux at the dawn of a new era. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 85.0 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Author: Döblin, Alfred, 1878-1957
EBook No.: 75838
Published: Apr 12, 2025
Downloads: 413
Language: German
Subject: Science fiction
Subject: German fiction -- 20th century
Subject: Nature and civilization -- Fiction
Subject: Greenland -- Colonization -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.
This edition has images.
Title: Berge Meere und Giganten : Roman
Original Publication: Berlin: S. Fischer, 1924.
Note: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berge_Meere_und_Giganten https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berge_Meere_und_Giganten
Credits: Jens Sadowski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.
Summary: "Berge Meere und Giganten" by Alfred Döblin is a novel written in the early 20th century. The book is likely a speculative or science-fictional epic, exploring the evolution and transformation of society, technology, and power structures across centuries. Rather than following a single protagonist, the narrative seems to focus on broad societal shifts and collective characters as humanity confronts monumental changes and challenges. The opening of the book is dense and sweeping, outlining the aftermath of a cataclysmic war and the subsequent transformation of human civilization. Döblin employs poetic, almost mystical language to describe the forces of nature and humanity's entanglement with them, painting a picture of a world where technology, social upheaval, and cultural fusion reshape continents. The narrative quickly moves into depictions of the rise and fall of populations, the dominance of machinery and industry, societal unrest, and power struggles among ruling classes in a futuristic vision of Europe and Africa. Personal conflicts and collective anxieties about identity, tradition, and adaptation to change are touched on through illustrative episodes, providing a vivid panorama of a world in flux at the dawn of a new era. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
Reading Level: Reading ease score: 85.0 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Author: Döblin, Alfred, 1878-1957
EBook No.: 75838
Published: Apr 12, 2025
Downloads: 413
Language: German
Subject: Science fiction
Subject: German fiction -- 20th century
Subject: Nature and civilization -- Fiction
Subject: Greenland -- Colonization -- Fiction
LoCC: Language and Literatures: Germanic, Scandinavian, and Icelandic literatures
Category: Text
Rights: Public domain in the USA.