New displays in the Walker Library

by Alex Aslett

There are two new displays in the Walker Library.  The first is a display on the Oxford University Press's Very Short Introductions series.

You can find this display in the cupboard outside the library. 

Book of the Week

Berlin Alexanderplatz by Alfred Döblin (translated by Eugene Jolas, Penguin, 1978)
Recommended by Mr Toller

First published in 1929, this is the story of Franz Biberkopf, an unskilled workman who at the start of the book is being released from prison.

He vows to 'go straight' but is unfortunate in his contacts; he falls in with a criminal gang whose leader Reinhold causes him to be seriously injured.

Peer Gynt

Next week's junior play is Ibsen's Peer Gynt, adapted and directed by Dr Hudson, who here offers an introduction to the play, and explains some of the thinking behind his adaption.

The Norwegian poet and playwright Henrik Ibsen completed his great verse drama, Peer Gynt, in the summer of 1867. He may have been nearly forty but it’s clearly a work that reflects a young man’s fear of responsibility and it includes themes to which he would return in his famous domestic tragedies such as A Doll’s House (1879), Ghosts (1881) and Hedda Gabler (1890), especially concerning sins of the past returning to plague their inventors.