Bely, Joyce, and Doblin: Peripatetics in the city novel

1. The emergence of the Modernist City Novel and Its Peripatetics Hero 2. Knights and Unicorns : The walkers of Petersburg 3. "Ulysses": The city of the wandering Aengus and the Wandering jew 4. Walking in the shadow of death : "Berlin Alexanderplatz" Peter Barta offers a new perspective on the narrative apparatus in three prominent modernist European city novels. He argues that the narrative combination of rambling, thinking, observing, and talking creates a "peripatetic" perspective, a manner of facing oneself and the world.