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NOVEMBER 1918 – A GERMAN REVOLUTION By Alfred Döblin PASSAGES OMITTED FROM THE WOODS TRANSLATION An English translation of Döblin’s enormous epic novel of the First World War’s chaotic and inconclusive end was published in the early 1980s by Fromm International (a now defunct publisher).
3 rd November 1918: The Kiel Mutiny served as the impetus for the revolution that expanded across the Empire in a matter of days, with little to no opposition from the previous order. As the working classes joined forces with the military, it grew into a massive movement opposed to the monarchical regime.
November Revolution: Germany becomes a republic. By late 1918, many German citizens were fed up with the war. There were major food shortages, and protests and rallies throughout the country. The population blamed Emperor Wilhelm II for the war and demanded his abdication. Most soldiers were tired of fighting as well and wanted the war to end.
The voluminous “Erzählwerk” November 1918, finally, is a multi-layered account of the events in which Döblin saw the actual origins of National Socialist rule: the disastrous First World War and the subsequent “German revolution” of 1918/19, which was crushed by the combined efforts of the Social Democratic national government, the general staff, the army, and the Freikorps.
The German Revolution of November 1918 is nowadays largely forgotten outside Germany. It is generally regarded as a failure even by those who have heard of it, a missed opportunity which paved the way for the rise of the Nazis and the catastrophe to come. The book argues that to view the German Revolution in this way is a serious misjudgement.
Since 1978 the German text of November 1918 has stabilised to a format of four physical volumes. But does this make it a Tetralogy? The 1939 typescript of Vol. 1 was titled “November 1918” under an overarching title for the projected trilogy “A German Revolution”.
7 de ago. de 2020 · Extract. The centenary of the revolution of November 1918 saw the release of several new narrative studies onto the German book market, including offerings from Joachim Käppner, Wolfgang Niess and Andreas Platthaus, among others. Robert Gerwarth has now produced a highly readable English-language account that—as Anthony McElligott rightly ...
