Döblin's book is hard to include in a clear literary classification. It could be a report about the Berlin from that time, a memoir, a feature ready to be published in a newspaper, a script of a movie, but not an usual one: a kind of road movie, where the characters themselves are moving and changing and at the end, dramatically but predictably fall down. The language you read the book is very important: the best suited is the original German version, but even for a native speaker, an argo dictionary is necessary. The questions following you and obsesively appearing during the lecture of the book - at least in my case: it is possible to do it? why to do it and which are the ethical limits, if any?
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