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ISBN10: 1980267030
ISBN13: 9781980267034
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 12 2018
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781980267034
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 12 2018
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.48
Height: 0.38 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
A novel that plunges the reader into the zeitgeist of 1916 Europe and delves into avant-garde philosophy, art and revolutionary politics.
Zurich 1916. Amidst the chaos of WWI a young man from provincial Poland arrives to study art. Good natured and unsophisticated, Anton has an enquiring nature and a strong desire to engage with modern culture. His lodgings are in Spiegelgasse, the same street as the nascent dada Cabaret Voltaire. The narrative takes place over about six months during which Anton attends the cabaret performances and meets the artists. Observing at first hand the development of dada in Zurich from its beginnings he struggles to understand the underlying forces and impetus. He also encounters Vladimir Lenin and his wife who take a room at his lodging house. Lenin mercilessly acquaints Anton with the naked truth about society and reveals his views on art.
Zurich 1916. Amidst the chaos of WWI a young man from provincial Poland arrives to study art. Good natured and unsophisticated, Anton has an enquiring nature and a strong desire to engage with modern culture. His lodgings are in Spiegelgasse, the same street as the nascent dada Cabaret Voltaire. The narrative takes place over about six months during which Anton attends the cabaret performances and meets the artists. Observing at first hand the development of dada in Zurich from its beginnings he struggles to understand the underlying forces and impetus. He also encounters Vladimir Lenin and his wife who take a room at his lodging house. Lenin mercilessly acquaints Anton with the naked truth about society and reveals his views on art.
Anton forms a friendship with Karl, an art student his own age from an old Zurich family. He is impressed with Karl's sophisticated manner and erudition, which he strives to absorb through discussion and voracious reading, immersing himself in avant-garde art and contemporary thought. Although Anton had by this time begun to liberate himself from the dogma of his native Catholicism and was inclined towards a scientific and atheistic view, the impact of Friedrich Nietzsche, the Cabaret Voltaire, the war, etc., drove him deeper into nihilism and a struggle to achieve a positive reconstruction of a desolated world. He both relished and dreaded the ideas he encountered but Anton's avowed aim was to achieve full self-consciousness and a clear understanding of the nature of his being, so intrepid and honest inquiry was imperative.This is a coming of age story processed through Anton's mind, with all its struggles, naiveté and imperfection. When Anton achieves his goal of self-consciousness through a profound subjective experience he discovers that it's not what he hoped for.
A Bildungsroman story that plumbs the depths of being.
A Bildungsroman story that plumbs the depths of being.
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