Overview
'The Other Side' tells of a dream kingdom which becomes a nightmare, of a journey to Pearl, a mysterious city created deep in Asia, which is also a journey to the depths of the subconcious, or as Kubin himself called it, ""a sort of Baedeker for those lands which are half known to us"". Written in 1908, and more or less half way between Meyrink and Kafka, it was greeted with wild enthusiasm by the artists and writers of the Expressionist generation. Franz Marc called it a magnificent reckoning with the 19th century and Kandinsky said it was almost a vision of evil, while Lyonel Feininger wrote to Kubin. ""I live much in Pearl, you must have written it and drawn it for me"". AUTHOR: Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) was one of the major graphic artists of the 20th century who was widely known for his illustrations of writers of the fantastic such as Balzac, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Gustav Meyrink and Edgar Allan Poe, of whom he illustrated at least 50 books. In his combination of the darkly decadent, the fantastic and the grotesque, in his evocations of dream and nightmare, his creation of an atmosphere of mystery and fear he resembles Mervyn Peake.
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Author: Alfred Kubin ,
Alfred Kubin ,
Mike Mitchell
Publisher: Dedalus Ltd
Imprint: Dedalus Ltd
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
ISBN: 9781910213032
ISBN 10: 1910213039
Pages: 249
Publication Date: 25 August 2023
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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'a magnificent reckoning with the 19th century' .Franc Marc 'it was almost a vision of evil' . Kandinsky 'I live much in Pearl, you must have written it and drawn it for me'. Lyonel Feininger in a letter to Alfred KubIn. It was almost a vision of evil. -- Kandinsky
It was almost a vision of evil. -- Kandinsky
Author Information
Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) was one of the major graphic artists of the 20th century who was widely known for his illustrations of writers of the fantastic such as Balzac, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Gustav Meyrink and Edgar Allan Poe, of whom he illustrated at least 50 books. In his combination of the darkly decadent, the fantastic and the grotesque, in his evocations of dream and nightmare, his creation of an atmosphere of mystery and fear he resembles Mervyn Peake. The Other Side (1908) is his only work of fiction. He has published over seventy translations from German and French, including Gustav Meyrink's five novels and The Dedalus Book of Austrian Fantasy. His translation of Rosendorfer's Letters Back to Ancient China won the 1998 Schlegel-Tieck Translation Prize after he had been shortlisted in previous years for his translations of Stephanie by Herbert Rosendorfer and The Golem by Gustav Meyrink. His translations have been shortlisted four times for The Oxford Weidenfeld Translation Prize, including for The Other Side by Alfred Kubin in 2000.
