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Scheerbart Paul - Munchausen And Clarissa A Berlin Novel - Paperback
Scheerbart Paul - Munchausen And Clarissa A Berlin Novel - Paperback
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Description: Baron Munchausen returns with visions of mobile architecture and journeys to sausage moons in this previously untranslated novel from Paul Scheerbart It is 1905 and a raging stupidity is holding sway over Europe. As an 18 - year - old Clarissa and her family take refuge on the icy shores of Lake Wannsee the legendary Baron Munchausen makes an unexpected appearance at their door. Returning to German society after a century of absence at the ripe age of 180, the Baron is cajoled into presenting his impressions of the World Fair in Melbourne Australia to a select gathering of Berlin celebrities. Over the course of a week the sprightly Baron arrives nightly by sleighmobile to combat the dreary days with a series of fantastical visions and theories: he discusses mobile architecture the role of technology in the arts and the need for art to ignore nature in its quest to discover new planetary organs and senses; the new household miracles of vacuum tubes for cleaning and potato - peeling machines; the repressive function of sexuality; and the need for progressive taxation. His tales of Melbourne eventually take his audience from a restaurant in the ocean depths to the dwellings of mineral giants in mountain caverns before culminating in a spiritual voyage to outer space among sausage moons and sun - skins. Paul Scheerbart (1863 - 1915) was a novelist playwright poet critic draftsman visionary proponent of glass architecture and would - be inventor of perpetual motion. Dubbed the wise clown by his contemporaries he opposed the naturalism of his day with fantastical fables and interplanetary satires that would influence Expressionist authors and the German Dada movement and which helped found German science fiction.
Title: Munchausen And Clarissa A Berlin Novel
Author(s): Scheerbart Paul
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Barcode: 9781939663511
Pages: 152 Pages, 9 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 2/16/2021
Category: Fantasy
Description: Baron Munchausen returns with visions of mobile architecture and journeys to sausage moons in this previously untranslated novel from Paul Scheerbart It is 1905 and a raging stupidity is holding sway over Europe. As an 18 - year - old Clarissa and her family take refuge on the icy shores of Lake Wannsee the legendary Baron Munchausen makes an unexpected appearance at their door. Returning to German society after a century of absence at the ripe age of 180, the Baron is cajoled into presenting his impressions of the World Fair in Melbourne Australia to a select gathering of Berlin celebrities. Over the course of a week the sprightly Baron arrives nightly by sleighmobile to combat the dreary days with a series of fantastical visions and theories: he discusses mobile architecture the role of technology in the arts and the need for art to ignore nature in its quest to discover new planetary organs and senses; the new household miracles of vacuum tubes for cleaning and potato - peeling machines; the repressive function of sexuality; and the need for progressive taxation. His tales of Melbourne eventually take his audience from a restaurant in the ocean depths to the dwellings of mineral giants in mountain caverns before culminating in a spiritual voyage to outer space among sausage moons and sun - skins. Paul Scheerbart (1863 - 1915) was a novelist playwright poet critic draftsman visionary proponent of glass architecture and would - be inventor of perpetual motion. Dubbed the wise clown by his contemporaries he opposed the naturalism of his day with fantastical fables and interplanetary satires that would influence Expressionist authors and the German Dada movement and which helped found German science fiction.
Title: Munchausen And Clarissa A Berlin Novel
Author(s): Scheerbart Paul
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Barcode: 9781939663511
Pages: 152 Pages, 9 Illustrations, Unspecified
Publication Date: 2/16/2021
Category: Fantasy
