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 considers documentary and pseudo-documentary elements in the image of Berlin in Döblin’s classic novel, the connection between «Neue Sachlichkeit», montage technique and the literary picture of the metropolis, the functions of “Berlin discourse” in the novel.
