Kubin--The Other Side

[Otto]

The movie made from this book: "Traumstadt" (Dream Town, Director: Johannes
Schaaf , 1974) is quite good too.

Otto

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Romeo" <romeocheeseburger at yahoo.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Sunday, January 26, 2003 8:55 PM
Subject: Kubin--The Other Side


> quite enjoying this novel.  reads like an extended
> Vheissu vacation. comparable to the Saragossa
> Manuscript:
>
> A new translation of a phantasmagoric allegorical
> (1908) novel-the only one completed by the renowned
> Austrian expressionist graphic artist (1877-1959)-that
> has often been compared to Mervyn Peake's fabulistic
> Gormenghast. It depicts its nameless narrator's
> traumatic sojourn to a remote"Dream Realm" whose
> languorous calm is gradually destroyed by an outbreak
> of sleeping sickness, attacks by a"teeming multitude
> of animals," and further derangements and
> catastrophes. Reminiscent as well of Witold
> Gombrowicz's aggressively loopy psychodramas, The
> Other Side not only demolishes the very idea of
> Shangri-la; it may be a wry acknowledgement of the
> creative imagination's perverse need for tension and
> trauma as stimulants. Blackly funny and boldly
> imagined, it's an authentic modernist masterpiece
>
> p.s. check out Kubin's art work--pretty cool, too
> Rich
>


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