Crazy in Berlin (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Berger
- First Published: 1958
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Bildungsroman
- Subjects: Self-discovery, United States or Americans, Communism or communists, 1940’s, Violence, Identity, Soldiers, Nazism or Nazis, Germany or German people, Russia or Russian people, Berlin
- Locales: Berlin, Germany
Crazy in Berlin, which opens on Carlo Reinhart's twenty-first birthday, is Berger's only remotely autobiographical novel, a coming-of-age tale in which his protagonist learns something about the complexities of the modern world. As an Army medic in Berlin following the end of World War II, Reinhart meets a wide variety of Americans, Germans, and Russians who introduce him to love, chaos, and madness. He spends much of the novel wandering from one lying or misinformed person to another as he acquires some sense of his identity.
The other characters include the idealistic...
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