In a Sound World
Works by the polymathic French author Victor Segalen, including a previously untranslated essay, a novel, and a libretto.Victor Segalen (1878-1919) had one of France's most curious literary careers, applying his imagination to musicology, ethnography, exploration, medicine, synesthetics, Chinese history, and the occult. This collection gathers together his previously untranslated essay Synesthestics and the Symbolist School” and his novel In A Sound World, a work of fantasy concerning an inventor lost in his own immersive harmonic space. Segalen's medical training (he had a career as a ship's doctor) inspired an interest in the link between t…
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Weitere Autoren: Roux, Marie / Hunt, Rod / Toop, David
- ISBN: 978-1-907222-80-1
- EAN: 9781907222801
- Produktnummer: 30603444
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 136 S.
- Masse: H18.5 cm x B11.4 cm x D1.1 cm 105 g
- Gewicht: 105
Über den Autor
Victor Segalen, hailed by Jorge Luis Borges as one of the most brilliant writers of the age, was a polymathic author work included poetry, novels, and ethnographic essays including Steles (1912) Rene Leys (1922), and Essay on Exoticism: An Aesthetics of Diversity, now widely considered to be important early gestures towards a new form of postcolonial interpretation.David Toop is a musician, writer, and Professor of Audio Culture and Improvisation at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. He is the author of Ocean of Sound, Sinister Resonance, Into the Maelstrom, and other books.
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