by Peter Fritzsche
Harvard University Press, 1996
Cloth: 978-0-674-74881-1 | eISBN: 978-0-674-03736-6 | Paper: 978-0-674-74882-8
Library of Congress Classification PN5219.B59F75 1996
Dewey Decimal Classification 073.155

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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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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