Reissued as a paperback by Plunkett Lake Press, Destiny's Journey
is a memoir reconstructed partly from notebooks that Doblin kept
from the time he worked in the French Ministry of Information in
the spring of 1940 and partly written without notes in Los Angeles
where he took refuge during the Second World War. It tells the
personal and generational story of the flight of Jewish and
anti-Nazi intellectuals from Europe to America, their fear and
frustration, isolation, and inability to work. Doblin's story
differs from that of other Jewish intellectuals and artists in that
his family converts to Catholicism in Los Angeles. Unlike most of
them, he returns to Europe as an officer with the French forces and
works on denazifying German literature. The conversion narrative
bridges the departure from and return to Europe. "The first part of
'Destiny's Journey' about] Doblin's departure from Paris in]
1940... is magisterial: acidly observed, saturated in telling
detail, grimly comic and harrowing... with an exemplary
introduction by Peter Demetz... an important, nourishing book" -
John Simon, The New York Times
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