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The mill : a cosmos
- Title
- The mill : a cosmos / Bess Brenck Kalischer ; translated by W. C. Bamberger ; illustrated by Richard Janthur.
- Author
- Brenck Kalischer, Bess, 1878-1933
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachussetts : Wakefield Press, [2021]
- ©2021
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | PT2603.R443 M8413 2021 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxi, 67 pages : illustrations; 18 cm
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Die Mühle : eine Kosmee. English
- Alternative Title
- Die Mühle : eine Kosmee.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Language (note)
- Translated from the German.
- ISBN
- 9781939663719
- 1939663717
- OCLC
- 1286838096
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library