This book, which ends with the main character starting work as a factory gatekeeper, begins when he is released from prison for killing his mistress with an egg beater.
Near the end of this novel, the protagonist hallucinates that he hears mice in a storeroom calling to him, and that he transforms into a mouse so he may live among them. A refrain in this novel is the archaically-written sentence "There is a mower death yclept" [ee-klept]. The protagonist of this novel has sex with a widow while selling shoelaces door to door, causing his boss to rob her after he brags of the incident. This book, which ends with the main character starting work as a factory gatekeeper, begins when he is released from prison for killing his mistress with an egg beater. (*) Reinhold pushes its protagonist from a moving car during a robbery, causing him to lose his right arm, and later strangles his lover, Mieze. It was turned into a 14-part television miniseries by Rainer Fassbinder. For 10 points, name this novel about the criminal Franz Biberkopf by Alfred Doblin, titled after a once-seedy public square in the German capital.
Near the end of this novel, the protagonist hallucinates that he hears mice in a storeroom calling to him, and that he transforms into a mouse so he may live among them.
Berlin Alexanderplatz