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The image of the city often becomes a subject of literary studies. The article aims at expanding the issue of urbanism poetics and city influence in literature. The author investigates key aspects of the city as a socio-cultural phenomenon with the help of the works by Western and American urban theorists.

The article is devoted to the examination of documentary and pseudo-documentary elements of the image of Berlin in the novel by A. Döbli-on "Berlin, Alexanderplatz. The Tale of Franz Bieberkopf "(1929). The possibilities of "new constructivism" and the technique of installation for creating the image of a metropolis, the "Berlin discourse" of the novel and its functions are considered.