Wang Lun
In a 1967 essay, Günter Grass declared: "Without the Futurist elements of Döblin's work from "Wang Lun" to "Berlin Alexanderplatz", my prose is inconceivable." Döblin was also an influence on writers such as W.G. Sebald and Bertolt Brecht; as Brecht wrote in 1943, "I learned more about the essence of the epic from Döblin than from anyone else. His epic writing and even his theory about the epic strongly influenced my own dramatic art."