Bøger af Paul Scheerbart

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Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915), digter, romanforfatter, arkitekturteoretiker, pacifistisk-anarkistisk utopist, eksperimentator udi evighedsmaskiner og glasfantasier og en af de særeste skikkelser i den tyske litteratur omkring århundredeskiftet. Scheerbart blev født i Gdańsk som ellevte barn af en velhavende købmand. Inden han var fyldt 16, var begge forældre og alle søskende døde. Efter afbrudte studier i filosofi og kunsthistorie levede han fra 1887 som fri digter i Berlin og blev snart berygtet for sine evindelige svireture, der udgik fra vinstuen Zum schwarzen Ferkel, hvor også Munch, Strindberg og Przybyszewski holdt til. I protest mod krigen indledte Scheerbart efter sigende en sultestrejke i 1915, men det var sandsynligvis en hjerneblødning, der senere samme år tog livet af ham.Lesabéndio (1913) er Scheerbarts skønlitterære hovedværk, hvori beboerne på asteroiden Pallas opfører et kæmpemæssigt tårn, der skal forbinde dem med det, der ligger gemt bag spindelvævsskyen over dem. Det er en roman om tiltrækningskraften mellem universets kosmiske legemer og den kunstneriske stræben efter et højere mål.Bogen er med efterord af Erik Granly Jensen, lektor ved Syddansk Universitet.

The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets brings together two short books, originally published in 1903, by the antierotic godfather of German science fiction, Paul Scheerbart. The Stairway to the Sun contains four fairy tales of sun, sea, animals and storm, each set in a different, fantastical locale, from the giant palace of an astral star to a dwarf's underwater glass lair in the jellyfish kingdom. Scheerbart's sad, whimsical tales provide gentle though unexpected morals that outline his work as a whole: treat animals as one would treat oneself, mutual admiration will never lead to harm and if one is able to remember that the world is grand, one will never be sad. Dance of the Comets, though published as an "Astral Pantomime," was originally conceived as a scenario for a ballet, which Richard Strauss had planned to score in 1900 (and which Mahler accepted for the Vienna Opera). Though the project was never realized, Scheerbart's written choreography of dance, gesture, costume, feather dusters, violet moon hair and a variety of stars and planets outlines a sequence of events in which everyone--enthusiastic maid, temperamental king, indifferent executioner, foolish poet--seeks, joins and, in some cases, becomes a celestial body: a staging of Scheerbart's lifelong yearning for a home in the universe. Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) was a novelist, playwright, poet, critic, draftsman, visionary, proponent of glass architecture and would-be inventor of perpetual motion.

Ornaments by Jossot and illustrations by Fâelix Vallotton