Title:
Author: Paul Scheerbart
Date: 1906-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Series:
Language: German
Current Tags: None Add Tags
Münchhausen und Clarissa: Ein Berliner Roman?Muenchhausen und Clarissa: Ein Berliner Roman
Title Record # 2031524
Author: Paul Scheerbart
Date: 1906-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: novella
Series:
Baron Munchausen / Münchhausen?Baron Munchausen / Muenchhausen
Language: German
Synopsis: "It is 1905 and a raging stupidity is holding sway over Europe. As an 18-year-old Clarissa and her family take refuge on the icy shores of Lake Wannsee, the legendary Baron Munchausen makes an unexpected appearance at their door. Returning to German society after a century of absence at the ripe age of 180, the Baron is cajoled into presenting his impressions of the World Fair in Melbourne, Australia, to a select gathering of Berlin celebrities. Over the course of a week, the sprightly Baron arrives nightly by sleighmobile to combat the dreary days with a series of fantastical visions and theories: he discusses mobile architecture, the role of technology in the arts and the need for art to ignore nature in its quest to discover new planetary organs and senses; the new household miracles of vacuum tubes for cleaning and potato-peeling machines; the repressive function of sexuality; and the need for progressive taxation. His tales of Melbourne eventually take his audience from a restaurant in the ocean depths to the dwellings of mineral giants in mountain caverns, before culminating in a spiritual voyage to outer space among sausage moons and sun-skins." (cited from the entry with Amazon.com)
User Rating:
This title has no votes.
VOTE
Current Tags: None Add Tags
Other Titles
Translations | ||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Publications
Displaying all variants and translations • Do not display translations • Do not display variants or translations
Title | Date | Author/Editor | Publisher/Pub. Series | ISBN/Catalog ID | Price | Pages | Format | Type | Cover Artist | Verif |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Münchhausen und Clarissa: Ein Berliner Roman?Muenchhausen und Clarissa: Ein Berliner Roman |
1906-00-00 | Paul Scheerbart | Oesterheld und Co. | 142 | hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size. |
chap | ||||
Das große Licht: Gesammelte Münchhausiaden?Das grosse Licht: Gesammelte Muenchhausiaden |
1987-00-00 | Paul Scheerbart | Suhrkamp (Phantastische Bibliothek #194) | 3-518-37900-3 | DM 10.00?DM: German (Deutsche) mark |
185 | pb?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper. |
omni | Tom Breuer | |
Munchausen and Clarissa: A Berlin Novel | 2020-11-17 | Paul Scheerbart | Wakefield Press | 978-1-939663-51-1 | $14.95?$: US dollar |
xviii+ 154 |
tp?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep. |
chap |