Nowatorstwo modernistycznej prozy Alfreda Döblina na przykładzie opowiadania "Die Ermordung einer Butterblume" (Mord na kwiecie kaczeńca)
The novelty of the modernist prose by Alfred Döblin on the example of the story Die Ermordung einer Butterblume (The Murder of a Buttercup)

Summary/Abstract: Alfred Döblin’s short story Die Ermordung einer Butterblume (The Murder of a Buttercup), from the collection Die Ermordung einer Butterblume und andere Erzählungen (1910–1911), is considered a key prose text of early German expressionism. It describes the deconstruction of an individual by nature, the superiority of which must be recognised by a man living in a big city, alienated and “uprooted” from nature. Any attempt to return to the original place of life is bound to fail. Employing a dual (real and surreal) image of the world, Döblin creates an innovative portrayal of the protagonist – Michael Fischer, presenting the reader with the world of his internal and external experience and treating his case as a study of psychosis.

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