/MOUNTAINS OCEANS GIANTS/is perhaps the most forgotten modernist epic of
the Anthropocene. It was written in the tumultuous years following World
War II — marked by the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, the Bolshevik
Revolution and (counter)revolutionary seesaw of paramilitarism and
pogroms, and the all-but-forgotten 1920–’21 global depression. It evokes
an equally tumultuous world, but of melting icecaps, new geological
strata, and the unfettered hubris of humans. Rediscovering this strange
book means rediscovering how, over a century ago, one of Germany’s
greatest writers thought and wrote about climate science. Originally
published in 1924 as/Berge Meere und Giganten/, it has now been
translated into English by Chris Godwin.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/alfred-doblins-anthropocene/
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