A review by masonanddixon
Bright Magic: Stories by Alfred Döblin

3.0

Wildly inconsistent. Doblin's tales of humankind's absurd place in nature are passionately told, and manically described, but for every grotesque Poe inspired tale, or eerily prescient psychological expressionist portrait, there's a thudding bore of an experiment. Still, makes me desperately want to read one of his novels. The man seemed willing to try anything (even the absurdist paragraph fiction that Daniil Kharms perfected!)