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"Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) was one of the major graphic artists of the 20th century who was widely known for his illustrations of writers of the fantastic such as Balzac, E. I. A. Hoffmann, Gustav Meyrink and Edgar Allan Poe. In his combination of the darkly decadent, the fantastic and the grotesque, in his evocations of dream and nightmare, his creation of an atmosphere of mystery and fear he resembles Mervyn Peake." "The Other Side tells of a dream kingdom which becomes a nightmare, of a journey to Pearl, a mysterious city created deep in Asia,
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"Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) was one of the major graphic artists of the 20th century who was widely known for his illustrations of writers of the fantastic such as Balzac, E. I. A. Hoffmann, Gustav Meyrink and Edgar Allan Poe. In his combination of the darkly decadent, the fantastic and the grotesque, in his evocations of dream and nightmare, his creation of an atmosphere of mystery and fear he resembles Mervyn Peake." "The Other Side tells of a dream kingdom which becomes a nightmare, of a journey to Pearl, a mysterious city created deep in Asia, which is also a journey to the depths of the subconscious. Or as Kubin himself called it, 'a sort of Baedeker for those lands which are half known to us'."--BOOK JACKET.
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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.
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  • ISBN-13: 9781873982693
  • Publisher: Dedalus, Limited
  • Publication date: 10/28/2000
  • Series: Dedalus European Classics Series
  • Pages: 248
  • Product dimensions: 5.68 (w) x 7.79 (h) x 0.78 (d)

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 27, 2001

    GREAT--Is the only word to describe it

    'The Other Side' is one of the best books i have ever read, I am very taken by the way that symbols are made into actual things and events. Its plot is about a man who goes to live in a Strange city where things are just not right, weird people and palces abound. This is Kuibin's only novel that i know of. i hope he wrote other stuff, 'cause his visual art is also great, anybody who likes dreaming and the language of dreams and desires should read this.

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