Alfred Kubin's The Other Side

[Otto]

I've read the novel after seeing the movie "Traumstadt" by Johannes
Schaaf (1973). A quick search brought the info that my book would
still bring 25 bucks, much more than I originally paid for it.

Haven't read it in decades, so I can't speak about the literary quality.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_andere_Seite

There's no English wikipedia-article.

Otto


2009/9/6 rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>:
> check out the etymologies of Vheissu from Tim Ware's site (from The Modern Word)
>
> Lesbare und lesenswerthe Bemerkungen über das Land Ukkbar in Klein-Asien
>
>  While certainly of interest to Borges scholars and modern
> Rosicrucians, Bemerkungen is most notorious for its chapter on the
> ideal community of Vheissu, the major inspiration behind the infamous
> Zweite Fruchtbringende Gesellschaft. Better known to history as the
> Commune of Prague, the ZFG was an isolated group of philosophers,
> Rosicrucians, and Lutheran radicals who attempted to recreate the
> ideals of Vheissu by establishing a closed community outside Prague in
> 1773. Their experiment was a disaster, ending two years later in a
> spiral of cannibalism, violent orgies, and mass suicide. (For further
> details, see "Rosiges Glühen, Blutiges Kreuz," by Kristoph Gross, Der
> Annalen Metakarus, 1934, pp. 345-78; or "The Prague Commune and its
> Influence on DeSade's The 120 Days of Sodom," by Josephine Pinto,
> Lingua Franca, Vol 10/No. 3, April 2000, pp. 22-25.)
> ______
> Kubin was a Czech--who knows, maybe he knew about the Commune of
> Prague--orgies, suicide, violence--sounds alot like The Other Side's
> Pearl.
>
> rich
>
> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Rich,
>>
>> Mucho thanks....I am definitely going to read it. Never had heard of it.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> --- On Sun, 9/6/09, rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> From: rich <richard.romeo at gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Alfred Kubin's The Other Side
>>> To: "“pynchon-l at waste.org“" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>>> Date: Sunday, September 6, 2009, 11:55 AM
>>> http://dxsuperpremium.blogspot.com/2007/10/other-side-by-alfred-kubin.html
>>>
>>> another Vheissu-like dream of annihilation. Kubin's only
>>> novel. known
>>> more for his artwork
>>>
>>> Written in 1908 and hailed by artists such as Kandinsky,
>>> The Other
>>> Side describes a dream kingdom that becomes a nightmare and
>>> a journey
>>> to Pearl, a mysterious city created deep in Asia that is
>>> also a
>>> journey into the subconscious'
>>>
>>> http://calitreview.com/1624
>>>
>>> wonderful drawings. if u like Goya and the Wall
>>>
>>> In Munich and Berlin it reached for a vehement, grotesque,
>>> fantastic
>>> linguistic means, for a wild primitive-sounding syntax,
>>> from which an
>>> “other modernism” gradually emerged. Kubin helped
>>> create this anarchic
>>> opening, which ignored the norms of taste of peinture and
>>> ultimately
>>> still avowed the ancient Horatian delectare—that is, an
>>> experience of
>>> the moment in which we recognize a variation of Lessing’s
>>> “pleasure.”
>>> Kubin had something quite different in mind: with his
>>> hallucinatory
>>> incantations he was seeking to disturb the viewer; he felt
>>> driven to
>>> solve the riddle of humankind and creation in a
>>> spellbinding act. In
>>> the process he exposed himself to the anxiety that
>>> Worringer wrote had
>>> been controlled by the Oriental peoples, since they see
>>> “in the world
>>> nothing but the shimmering veil of Maya.” Kubin’s
>>> studies of occult
>>> doctrines and Buddhism did not provide him with the refuge
>>> for which
>>> he had hoped, however. As early as 1908 he was warning his
>>> friend
>>> Fritz von Herzmanovsky-Orlando against Buddhism: “a
>>> watertight but
>>> sterile system” that “is incompatible with an
>>> artistically creative
>>> existence.”
>>>
>>> rich
>>>
>>>
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