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Many creators have a lot of attachment to the city where he grew up and turn it into the mark of his own creation. The film director Woody Allen filmed new york from young to old, and Paris, which broke the heart of French poet Baudelaire, was a "flower of evil", while Zhang Ailing had endless Shanghai.

German writer Alfred Doblin (1878- 1957) has only one novel, Berlin, Alexandria Square, with Berlin as the center. However, this novel alone is enough to get him into the Metropolitan Writing Hall of Fame.

There is a saying in medieval Germany: "The air in the city makes people free. The original intention was that serfs fled to towns, and if they could be self-sufficient for more than 100 days, they would be free. Cities create opportunities for individuals and society to gain freedom voluntarily.

However, the noise and darkness on the surface of the city can also make countless people lose their life and the power of life. Flantz, a Berlin hero in Alexandria Square, said, "I have no strength at all. I don't even have the power of hope. 」

All the bliss, sadness, pain, struggle and resignation in Flantz will return to Berlin, Alexandria Square 1928.

If you don't wake up, you will be slaughtered.

Flantz, who just got out of prison, wants to be an upright man. He first made a living by selling newspapers near Alexandria Square. Soon, he was tricked into joining the underworld. This strong and childlike man attracts the attention of both women and the worst bad guys.

The city has undergone external changes due to construction, and the city has also undergone internal changes due to the influx of different people. However, not everyone can understand the benefits of modernization: "German people, no nation has ever been so despicable tempted and so despicable and unfair deceived like the German nation. 」

Flantz knows the darkness of the evil forces, but he can't live alone. He was used by the bad guys, and he failed his girlfriend who sold herself for him. Finally, he entered a mental hospital:

Why can Flantz get a new life? According to Doblin's description on the last page of the novel, "Wake up and open your eyes. Note that thousands of people are a whole. Those who don't wake up are either laughed at or slaughtered. After so many ups and downs, "we know what we know, and we have to pay a high price for it." " 」

Therefore, "the old world is bound to die, wake up, morning air." 」

A novel of stream of consciousness and montage

Doblin has lived in Berlin for more than forty years. He was born in a small town that was included in Poland. His versatile father eloped with a little girl when he was ten years old, and his mother took him and his family to Berlin. Doblin liked to study hard, and later got a doctor's degree in medicine, practicing medicine in Berlin.

He published many works, such as novels and plays. The reason why Alexander Square in Berlin has become a novel that German readers are still reading today lies in the ingenious story form and the representativeness of Alexander Square in that era.

In 1927, Irish writer Joyce used the "stream of consciousness" technique to describe the master's subjective imagination, thinking, seeing, objective description and explanation, and showed his 18 hours in Dublin with more than 1000 pages. Ulysses was translated into German and published.

In the same year, the silent documentary "Berlin: City Symphony" interlaced the dynamic factory assembly line with the static silhouette of life, creating a "montage" effect.

Influenced by the stream of consciousness and montage techniques brought by these two works, Doblin created the life experience of the protagonist in Berlin in 1929, and added biblical stories, Greek fairy tales, news reports, weather forecasts, pop songs, scientific research, slaughterhouses in Berlin, statistics and other contents, thus forming Berlin and Alexandria Square with clever and rich story scenes.

This book, published the following year, is a blockbuster because of its novel structure and sensational story. In addition to translation in various languages, it has been continuously adapted into movies and TV series.

1980, the 15 TV film version shot by German director Fassbinda won the Catholic Humanism Award at the Venice Film Festival in the same year. The latest 2020 film version is to replace the protagonist with an African refugee.

This is Berlin full of fanatical energy.

What year is 1928? It was ten years after the end of World War I, and the Nazis grew up by demagoguery.

Flantz was crushed by the violence of the city, history and modernization in Alexandria Square, a ring built by the city of Berlin. Whether he can stand up again depends on how long his awakening can last.

The subsequent World War II proved that people can be stupid not once, but many times.

As for Alexandria Square in Berlin, where is it? German literary critic walter benjamin wrote the answer in "On Doblin":

About Berlin's fanatical energy and nobody, you can see it in the film version or Broadway musical version of Karaoke Bar. That is A Farewell to Berlin, which originated from the personal memory story of British writer isherwood. Berliners' depression and joy on the eve of World War II were displayed in the karaoke bars.

You can also shoot two angels in German director Wenders, one is watching coldly, and the other is eager to see all beings in the city "under the Berlin sky" and find the fanatical vitality of the little people. We can travel around postwar Berlin from God's perspective. "Berlin, Alexandria Square" used this place as a laboratory to enlarge the life of the German people in Weimar period under a microscope.

Survivors of urban violence

Nearly a hundred years ago, Doblin wrote a vivid novel full of lens sense and market spirit. But why is this book not read by many people in the Chinese world?

/kloc-the old Russian novels of the 0/9th century show us "redundant people" who can think and sink, but have no action. Japanese and American novels, which also appeared in the first half of the twentieth century, let us see that they are broken hooligans. These characters are cherished by us because of their nobility and injuries. Although Doblin writes about marginal people, he is an unqualified person, and you won't respect him unless you read it to the end.

The main female characters in Berlin and Alexandria Square have a bottom line and are willing to take on responsibilities that they obviously cannot cope with. Baudelaire said: "Heroes are the real theme of modernism. In other words, to survive in modern society, you need to have a heroic quality. The two J girls in the novel are both heroes.

Flantz is neither a good man nor a bad man. He is neither a hero nor an anti-hero. He is a survivor of urban violence. He is a man with a story. His story is wonderful.