Description
Proclaimed as the “first Dada novel” & the “literary equivalent of Cézanne,” Melchior Vischer’s Sekunde durch Hirn (Second Through Brain, 1920) is composed as a series of disconnected vignettes that flash through the mind of one Jörg Schuh as he falls from the scaffolding of a 40-storey construction site. With its boldly idiosyncratic technique, Vischer’s novel is a major document of the Zürich-Prague-Berlin Dada axis. Largely forgotten after World War II, Sekunde durch Hirn is an important rediscovered landmark of the inter-war European avant-garde, here translated into English for the first time.
Information
Author: Vischer Melchior
Language: English
Publication date: November 20, 2015
Manufacturer: Spolek pro Prahu literární, z.s.
Genres: English literature, Books, Foreign language books, Contemporary fiction in english, Fiction in english, English novels
Type: Paperback book
Pages: 120
ISBN/EAN: 9780993195518