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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Wakefield Pr
Publication date
October 25, 2016
Pages
128
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9781939663214
ISBN-10
1939663210
Dimensions
0 by 4.50 by 7 in.
Original list price
$13.95
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My Papa and the Maid of Orléans and Other Grotesques | The Unruly Bridal Bed and Other Grotesques | Monsieur de Bougrelon | The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington | Down Below (NYRB Classics) | Bright Magic | The Perpetual Motion Machine | Rakkóx the Billionaire & the Great Race | Spells
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets brings together two short books, originally published in 1903, by the antierotic godfather of German science fiction, Paul Scheerbart. The Stairway to the Sun contains four fairy tales of sun, sea, animals and storm, each set in a different, fantastical locale, from the giant palace of an astral star to a dwarfâs underwater glass lair in the jellyfish kingdom. Scheerbartâs sad, whimsical tales provide gentle though unexpected morals that outline his work as a whole: treat animals as one would treat oneself, mutual admiration will never lead to harm and if one is able to remember that the world is grand, one will never be sad.
Dance of the Comets, though published as an âAstral Pantomime,â was originally conceived as a scenario for a ballet, which Richard Strauss had planned to score in 1900 (and which Mahler accepted for the Vienna Opera). Though the project was never realized, Scheerbartâs written choreography of dance, gesture, costume, feather dusters, violet moon hair and a variety of stars and planets outlines a sequence of events in which everyone--enthusiastic maid, temperamental king, indifferent executioner, foolish poet--seeks, joins and, in some cases, becomes a celestial body: a staging of Scheerbartâs lifelong yearning for a home in the universe.
Paul Scheerbart (1863â1915) was a novelist, playwright, poet, critic, draftsman, visionary, proponent of glass architecture and would-be inventor of perpetual motion.
Dance of the Comets, though published as an âAstral Pantomime,â was originally conceived as a scenario for a ballet, which Richard Strauss had planned to score in 1900 (and which Mahler accepted for the Vienna Opera). Though the project was never realized, Scheerbartâs written choreography of dance, gesture, costume, feather dusters, violet moon hair and a variety of stars and planets outlines a sequence of events in which everyone--enthusiastic maid, temperamental king, indifferent executioner, foolish poet--seeks, joins and, in some cases, becomes a celestial body: a staging of Scheerbartâs lifelong yearning for a home in the universe.
Paul Scheerbart (1863â1915) was a novelist, playwright, poet, critic, draftsman, visionary, proponent of glass architecture and would-be inventor of perpetual motion.
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from Wakefield Pr (October 25, 2016)
9781939663214 | details & prices | 128 pages | List price $13.95
About: The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets brings together two short books, originally published in 1903, by the antierotic godfather of German science fiction, Paul Scheerbart.
About: The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets brings together two short books, originally published in 1903, by the antierotic godfather of German science fiction, Paul Scheerbart.
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