Berlin Alexanderplatz, it is noted in our text, is written in the style of James Joyce. Doblin apparently read Ullysses after nearly completing the work, then went back and changed things, edited, and so on. This goes a long way to explain why some paragraphs are written in an entirely logical fashion and others are completely stream of consciousness, written from different points of view, etc.
The other thing I discovered in a short (very short) search was that the book has been made into a movie twice: once, Doblin himself worked on it, the second time, the movie was 15 1/2 hours long.
I've also noticed that some of the mid to late book intros are very clearly poems. I haven't yet determined if the sections headed by poems are the ones in which he is crazier than those written in prose, nor have I had a chance to go to my ill gotten German edition to see if those rhyme and are in meter too. Maybe that $1.50 on Amazon will be well spent yet.
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