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Article: Weltfabrik Berlin: Eine Metropole als Sujet der Literatur.(Book review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- April 1, 2008
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Weltfabrik Berlin: Eine Metropole als Sujet der Literatur. Ed. by MATTHIAS HARDER and almut Hille. W urzburg: Konigshausen & Neumann. 2006. 306 pp. 29.80[euro]. ISBN 978-3-8260-3245-5.
This thematic volume proceeds from an awareness of the special status and ongoing appeal of Berlin within the German-speaking world and beyond. The city has long been able to attract and inspire artists and writers, and the recent resurgence of interest in the German capital, in the years since reunification, is noted by the Berlin-based editors ('Berlin liegt imTrend' (p. 9)), who hope to appeal to a wider readership than is customary for volumes of this type. They are explicit ...