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The Mill: A Cosmos

The Mill: A Cosmos

Kalischer, Bess Brenck
Bamberger, W. C.

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ISBN10: 1939663717
ISBN13: 9781939663719
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: Oct 19 2021
Pages: 88
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.40 Width: 4.30 Depth: 6.80
Language: English

The hallucinatory English-language debut of an overlooked German Expressionist poet

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.

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