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Title: Lucky Hans & Other Merz Fairy Tales
Author: SCHWITTERS KURT
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 15/02/2014
Imprint: PRINCETON UNI PRESS
Price: $30.00
Publishing status: Active
Kurt Schwitters revolutionised the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theatre performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. This book gathers 32 stories written between 1925 and Schwitters’ death in 1948. Schwitters wrote these darkly humorous, satirical, and surreal tales at a time when traditional German fairy tales were being co-opted by the Nazis. Filled with sharp critiques of German life during the Weimar and early Nazi eras, the tales are rich with absurdist events and insist that not everyone—and perhaps not anyone—lives happily ever after.
ISBN: 9780691160993
Pages: 256