City literature
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Big cities attracted the interest of great writers in the early 20th century, as reflected in Rainer Maria Rilke’s The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge (1910), John Dos Passos's Manhattan Transfer (1925), Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929), James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) and T. S. Eliot’s vision of London in The Waste Land (1922).
But before that, there had been Ferragus by Balzac and The Mysteries of Paris and The Mysteries of London
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