An analysis about the Walter Benjamin's relation with the historicism and with the Alfred Doblin's Roman writing

The congruence between the texts "Der historische Roman und wir" (The historical Roman and us) by Alfred Doblin and "On the concept of history" by Walter Benjamin concerns the historicist analysis, on a modernist conception both in a social-cultural sense, intended by Benjamin, and on that one defined more specifically by a theory about the Roman, observed in Doblin's text. Benjamin analyses the historical phenomenon relating himself with the historicist stream, criticising it and placing himself in an avant-gardist point of view, including his writing on it. On the text about the Roman crisis, he begins with considerations about theoretical points from Doblin's authorship and analyses this author's writing on Berlin Alexanderplatz, reverencing both the writing method and the theoretical aspects pointed by Doblin. In this way, it is possible to find a flagrant approach between Benjamin and Doblin an, also, on the propositions found on Doblin's text about the historical Roman. On the present article, it was intended to analyse the approaching points between the texts by Benjamin and Doblin, as well as their differences, with the finality to propose a perspective which contemplates also their writings - supported by the modernist aesthetics - from a theoretical historical bias.