{"product_id":"9781939663467-at-the-blue-monkey-33-outlandish-stories","title":"Serner Walter - At The Blue Monkey 33 Outlandish Stories - Paperback","description":"Binding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\nDescription: An English translation of Dada founder Walter Serner's first collection of outlandish short stories Walter Serner's first story collection published in German in 1921, brought to narrative form the philosophy of his earlier Dada manifesto\/handbook Last Loosening: A Handbook for the Con Artist \u0026amp; Those Who Wish to Be One life is a con job and demands the skills of a swindler. With its depiction of a world of appearances in which nothing can be trusted At the Blue Monkey helped establish the ex - doctor and renounced Dadaist as a literary Maupaussant of crime and offers in this first English translation 33 stories of criminals con artists and prostitutes engaged in varieties of financial insolvency embezzlement sexual hijinks long and short cons and dalliances with venereal diseases and drugs. Told in a baroque sometimes baffling poetry of underworld slang in an urban world of bars and rent - a - rooms these short tales are presented to the reader like so many three - card Montes in which readers come to realize too late that they may well themselves be the literary mark. Walter Serner (1889 1942) helped found the Dada movement and embodied its most cynical and anarchic aspects. After breaking with the movement he began publishing crime stories and the 1925 novel The Tigress. Moving constantly across Europe he eventually disappeared and was rumored to have vanished into the criminal milieu he wrote about; in fact he had returned to Czechoslovakia married and become a schoolteacher. In 1942, he and his wife presumably died after being moved from a concentration camp his books banned and burned by the Nazis.\u003cbr\u003e\nTitle: At The Blue Monkey 33 Outlandish Stories\u003cbr\u003e\nAuthor(s): Serner Walter\u003cbr\u003e\nPublisher: Wakefield Press\u003cbr\u003e\nBarcode: 9781939663467\u003cbr\u003e\nPages: 192 Pages, 0\u003cbr\u003e\nPublication Date: 2\/18\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\nCategory: Short Stories","brand":"Serner Walter","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49626757988657,"sku":"IN-G-9781939663467","price":14.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0644\/6759\/9594\/files\/9781939663467.jpg?v=1724952712","url":"https:\/\/bookdelivered.com\/products\/9781939663467-at-the-blue-monkey-33-outlandish-stories","provider":"Book Delivered","version":"1.0","type":"link"}