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Karl and Rosa (1950)

by Alfred Döblin

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Series: November 1918 (3)

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1919. The revolution is about to end, in part, or in good part, betrayed by the left parties closest to the bourgeois power. The end of the Spartacist revolution is also the end, at once romantic and dramatic to the point of delirium, of Rosa Luxemburg who, dismayed by the barbarism of her times, is imprisoned in 1919 and ends her days receiving the ghostly visits of her dead lover and from Satan himself...Kart Liebknecht, his partner, also succumbs to his worst nightmares, because he is unable to prevent the collapse of the revolutionary ranks and the escalation of violence. The dream of the revolution (and its failure) produces monsters.  … (more)

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