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Fantastic Orgy

Fantastic Orgy

Bamberger, W. C.
Frey, Alexander M.

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Literary Fiction

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ISBN10: 1939663946
ISBN13: 9781939663948
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: Aug 5 2025
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.25
Height: 0.60 Width: 4.30 Depth: 6.90
Language: English

Maimed beggars, female automatons, cultural prosthetics: four tales of opulence, poverty and grotesque empathy from the Weimar Republic

First published in 1924, Fantastic Orgy is most notable for its title story, an account of a drinking rout organized for maimed beggars in honor of a sideshow attraction, a mechanical woman doomed to early death through disintegration from entertaining the masses--a depiction of a robotic woman preceding by several years Fritz Lang's less sympathetic presentation in Metropolis. All four stories, however, explore the emotional and material needs of a crippled society, the economic trap of poverty and the hypocritical righteousness of charity. Like an etching by Georg Grosz or Otto Dix translated into literary form, Alexander Frey presents the troubling, at times fantastical notion of a prosthetic humanity for damaged times.

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