"Berlin Alexandrplatz. The Story of Franz Bieberkopf" (1929) is the most famous work of the German prose writer and essayist Alfred Deblin (1878-1957), one of the key novels of the 20th century. For the first time, the reader is offered the full text of the work (numerous, both ideological and random, bills have been translated for this publication, the graphic appearance of the original has been restored, to which the author himself attached special artistic importance). The writer managed not only to recreate an extremely accurate portrait of his era, but to combine innovative writing technique with eternal problems of being. The story of a former loader who served four years in prison for the murder of a friend is interspersed with pictures of Berlin's life in the 1920s, genuine advertising and newspaper notes of the time. Such an unusual editing technique of writing allows you to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of a large city, above which the shadow of fascism is already hovering. The book became a real sensation, immediately causing loud controversy among German intellectuals about the significance and fate of prose genres in the literature of the 20th century.