ISBN10: 1939663032, ISBN13: 9781939663030, [publisher: Wakefield Press] Softcover First Edition ISBN 9781939663030. Trade Paperback. English translation of 2013 German original. Very slight wear to corners and edges; otherwise tight, sound and unmarked in Very Good to Near Fine condition.
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ISBN10: 1939663032, ISBN13: 9781939663030, [publisher: Wakefield Press, Cambridge] Softcover Paperback. A semi-autobiographical novel portraying a frenetic and literary Zurich as the backdrop to the Dada movementIn 1916, Hugo Ball (18861927) cofounded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and penned the "Dada Manifesto," launching what would become the Zurich Dada movement. That same year he completed his semi-autobiographical novel, Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor, which would be published two years later. Drawing from his pre-Dada period of struggle and poverty in the vaudeville circuit, Ball immerses us in the rise and fall of Max Flametti and his vaudeville company. Fishing in the local river to feed his company, dabbling in drugs, strolling through the vegetable market on the Gemuesebruecke in Zurich, ducking into a side street to avoid running into the police, Flametti marches through the pages of Balls novel passionately pursuing a career that culminates in the presentation of the theatrical extravaganza The Indians at the Krokodil in Zuerich (a locale that still exists today as a Spanish restaurant). Overcoming odds and alternately averting, succumbing to and embracing financial ruin, Flametti ultimately emerges as a tragic figure--a Willy Loman of vaudeville. Flametti portrays a frenetic Zurich that had been the backdrop to the Dada movement, and is comparable to other such literary cities and eras as Christopher Isherwoods Berlin. "Originally ...
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ISBN10: 1939663032, ISBN13: 9781939663030, [publisher: Wakefield Press, Cambridge] Softcover Paperback. A semi-autobiographical novel portraying a frenetic and literary Zurich as the backdrop to the Dada movementIn 1916, Hugo Ball (18861927) cofounded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and penned the "Dada Manifesto," launching what would become the Zurich Dada movement. That same year he completed his semi-autobiographical novel, Flametti, or The Dandyism of the Poor, which would be published two years later. Drawing from his pre-Dada period of struggle and poverty in the vaudeville circuit, Ball immerses us in the rise and fall of Max Flametti and his vaudeville company. Fishing in the local river to feed his company, dabbling in drugs, strolling through the vegetable market on the Gemuesebruecke in Zurich, ducking into a side street to avoid running into the police, Flametti marches through the pages of Balls novel passionately pursuing a career that culminates in the presentation of the theatrical extravaganza The Indians at the Krokodil in Zuerich (a locale that still exists today as a Spanish restaurant). Overcoming odds and alternately averting, succumbing to and embracing financial ruin, Flametti ultimately emerges as a tragic figure--a Willy Loman of vaudeville. Flametti portrays a frenetic Zurich that had been the backdrop to the Dada movement, and is comparable to other such literary cities and eras as Christopher Isherwoods Berlin. "Originally ...
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