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My papa and the maid of Orléans : and other grotesques / Mynona, a.k.a. Salomo Friedlaender ; translated by W.C. Bamberger.
- Title
- My papa and the maid of Orléans : and other grotesques / Mynona, a.k.a. Salomo Friedlaender ; translated by W.C. Bamberger.
- Author
- Mynona, 1871-1946
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Wakefield Press, [2017]
- ©2017
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Bamberger, W. C.
- Description
- 80 pages; 18 cm
- Summary
- Mynona's 1921 companion collection of grotesques to The Unruly Bridal Bed is no less provocative and just as indefinable-even close to a century after its original German publication. These twelve off-kilter parabolic tales include items such as "The Chamber Pot as Lifesaver," "The Art of Self-Embalming," "The Maiden as Toothpowder," "Your Panties Are Beautiful!" and "The Amorous Corpse." E. T. A Hoffmann meets Immanuel Kant through the unlikeliest of looking glasses as Mynona spins out quasi-mystical meetings between cosmic entities and drawing-room romantics: a starry-eyed Buster Keaton skirting along the philosophical and literary borders of topics such as cuckoldry, necrophilia, schizophrenia, the end of history, and the love lives of objects. My Papa and the Maid of Orléans pokes twelve more holes in the material world and further demonstrate Mynona's predilection for the philosophical pratfall.
- Uniform Title
- Short stories. Selections. English
- Alternative Title
- Short stories.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Fictional Work
- Fiction
- Translations
- Romans.
- Note
- "Originally published as Mein Papa und die Jungfrau von Orléans: Nebst anderen Grotesken (München: Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1921)."--Title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-80)
- Language (note)
- Translated from the German.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Translator's introduction -- The chamber pot as lifesaver -- The art of self-embalming -- The maiden as toothpowder -- Description of my bride -- The old man in the meeting -- Why I am always so sad -- Your panties are beautiful! -- The sun's missionary -- The amorous corpse -- The old man and the young girl : a relief -- The mishap in the corner -- My papa and the maid of Orléans.
- ISBN
- 193966327X
- 9781939663276
- OCLC
- 959040409
- SCSB-10706017
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library