Black-white-red : grotesques /
Author / Creator: | Mynona, 1871-1946, author. |
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Uniform title: | Schwarz-Weiss-Rot. English |
Imprint: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : Wakefield Press, [2022] ©2022 |
Description: | xvi, 52 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm |
Language: | English |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12764358 |
Summary: | Mynona's self-styled "grotesques" inhabit an uncertain ground between fairy tale, fetishism and philosophy, satirizing everything from nationalism to philanthropy First published in German in 1916, Black-White-Red collects six bizarre tales by the "laughing philosopher" Salomo Friedlaender, who wrote his literary work under the pseudonym Mynona (the reversed German word for "anonymous"). In this collection, we encounter a tongue-in-cheek showdown between Goethe and Newton, whose theories of color clash in the form of a nationalistic flag; another story presents the inventor of the tactilestylus setting out to capture the residual sound waves of Goethe speaking in his study through a mechanical recreation of his vocal apparatus, with its amplification set to infinite. In "The Magic Egg," one of Mynona's most emblematic and curious tales, a man encounters an enormous bisecting mechanical egg in the middle of the desert that houses a mummy and a possible pathway to utopia on Earth. |
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Item Description: | Originally published as Schwarz-Weiss-Rot: Grotesken von Mynona (Mit Zwei Zeichnungen von L. Meidner) by Kurt Wolff Verlag in 1916. |
Physical Description: | xvi, 52 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
ISBN: | 9781939663849 1939663849 |