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. 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.
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