Alfred Döblin
Blaubart und Miß Ilsebill
Mit Steinzeichnungen
von
Carl Rabus
Berlin 1923
Hans Heinrich Tillgner Verlag
A sequence of short narratives that shifts between grotesque comedy, satirical caricature, and fable-like episodes. The pieces fixate on bodily preoccupations, punitive demonstrations of power, marital and sexual anxieties, and the collapse of social pretenses, rendered through vivid, sometimes violent imagery and caustic irony. Prose moves from brisk observation to surreal digression, exposing self-deception and human weakness while puncturing pretension with dark humor. Each tale presents a compact, morally ambiguous situation rather than a conventional resolution, inviting reflection through shock and wit.
Alfred Döblin
Mit Steinzeichnungen
von
Carl Rabus
Berlin 1923
Hans Heinrich Tillgner Verlag