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Author:
Brenck Kalischer, Bess, 1878-1933, author.
Title:
The mill : a cosmos / Bess Brenck Kalischer ; translated by W. C. Bamberger ; illustrated by Richard Janthur.
Publisher:
Wakefield Press,
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
xxi, 67 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Subject:
1900-1999
German literature--20th century.
Literature, Experimental.
Prose poems, German--20th century.
Mentally ill--Poetry.
German literature.
Literature, Experimental.
Prose poems.
Literature.
Other Authors:
Bamberger, W. C., translator.
Janthur, Richard, 1883-1956, illustrator.
Other Titles:
Die Mühle : eine Kosmee. English
Notes:
Prose poems. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"Bess Brenck Kalischer's only work of prose was first published in German in 1922. Narrated by a woman being held in a sanitarium after a mental breakdown, The Mill is less a novel than a rhythmic, hallucinatory and fractured sequence of prose poems. On its publication, the German author Mynona described it as "more a mill, a cosmos flower, a lyricism and romantic spell than it is a 'novel.'" Shifting from pedestrian concerns to cosmic visions, from the setting of a basement mushroom farm to scenes on Sirius, Kalischer's narrator weaves together literary satire, anguished dream states and shifting subjectivities. As much Maldoror as Munchausen, The Mill describes an unstable journey to psychic restoration that is as radically experimental today as when it was first published a century ago." --Publisher.
ISBN:
1939663717
9781939663719
OCLC:
(OCoLC)1286838096
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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