The Ordinaryin the Novel of German Modernism

This study reveals the analytical agenda through which Siegfried Kracauer’s Ginster, Alfred Döblin’s Berlin Alexanderplatz, and Elias Canetti’s Die Blendung trace the social and political aspects of the everyday. By foregrounding modes of conduct that are common, deindividualized, and environmentally attuned, these three modernist novels present the ordinary as the foundational structure of human behavior.