{"product_id":"munchausen-and-clarissa-a-berlin-novel","title":"Munchausen and Clarissa: A Berlin Novel","description":"By Paul Scheerbart\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIntroduction and translation by Christina Svendsen\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBaron Munchausen returns with visions of mobile architecture and journeys to sausage moons, in this previously untranslated novel from Paul Scheerbart. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIt is 1905 and a raging stupidity is holding sway over Europe. As an 18-year-old Clarissa and her family take refuge on the icy shores of Lake Wannsee, the legendary Baron Munchausen makes an unexpected appearance at their door. Returning to German society after a century of absence at the ripe age of 180, the Baron is cajoled into presenting his impressions of the World Fair in Melbourne, Australia, to a select gathering of Berlin celebrities. Over the course of a week, the sprightly Baron arrives nightly by sleighmobile to combat the dreary days with a series of fantastical visions and theories: he discusses mobile architecture, the role of technology in the arts and the need for art to ignore nature in its quest to discover new planetary organs and senses; the new household miracles of vacuum tubes for cleaning and potato-peeling machines; the repressive function of sexuality; and the need for progressive taxation. His tales of Melbourne eventually take his audience from a restaurant in the ocean depths to the dwellings of mineral giants in mountain caverns, before culminating in a spiritual voyage to outer space among sausage moons and sun-skins.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePaperback\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e152 pages\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWakefield Press, 2021\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e4.5 x 7 inches\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eISBN 9781939663511 \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFiction\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"vendor-unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41337423069352,"sku":"9781939663511","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0175\/8594\/products\/Munchausen-and-Clarissa-A-Berlin-Novel_Paul-Scheerbart_Christina-Svendsen.jpg?v=1634501241","url":"https:\/\/neue-galerie-design-shop.myshopify.com\/products\/munchausen-and-clarissa-a-berlin-novel","provider":"Neue Galerie Design Shop \u0026 Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}