Otto Julius Bierbaum

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Samalio PardulusPaperback, 21 May 2019

Samalio Pardulus
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Print Length
88 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Wakefield Press
Date Published
21 May 2019
ISBN-10
1939663415
ISBN-13
9781939663412

Description

A gothic novella offering a stepping-stone between German Romanticism and the then-nascent Expressionism

In an isolated castle on the outskirts of a city in the Albanian mountains, the wildly ugly painter of blasphemies, Samalio Pardulus, executes works too monstrous to bear viewing, and espouses a philosophy that posits a grotesque world which reflects the ravings of a dead, grotesque god. Told through the horrified account of Messer Giacomo (a mediocre artist at once repulsed and fascinated by the events unfolding around him), Samalio Pardulus describes the simultaneous descent and ascent of the titular antihero into a passionate perversion of Catholicism in which love and madness become one, as a dark, incestuous incubus settles into a doomed family.

When it was first published in 1908, Otto Julius Bierbaum's gothic novella--the first of his Sonderbare Geschichten ("Weird Stories")--offered a Gnostic stepping-stone between German Romanticism and the nascent Expressionism that had not yet taken root. It presents the grotesque not just as a way of life, but as a godly path to a higher vision, even when it appears to be but a manifestation of evil.

This first English edition includes the full set of illustrations by Alfred Kubin from the book's 1911 German edition.

Otto Julius Bierbaum (1865-1910) was a German novelist, poet, journalist and editor. His 1897 novel Stilpe inspired the first cabaret venue in Berlin a few years later; his last novel, the 1909 Yankeedoodlefahrt, produced a German proverb still in use today: "Humor is when you laugh anyway."

Product Details

Author:
Otto Julius Bierbaum
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
21 May 2019
Dimensions:
17.53 x 10.92 x 1.02 cm
ISBN-10:
1939663415
ISBN-13:
9781939663412
Language:
English
Pages:
88
Publisher:
Weight:
113.4 gm

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