Paul Scheerbart’s Kaleidoscopic Fantasies

The work of the German polymath Paul Scheerbart is attracting a renewed attention in recent years. During his prolific career, his unconventional fiction, art and poetry influenced a range of intellects, from architect Bruno Taut to Walter Benjamin, who even quoted his ideas on glass in his Arcades...

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Autor principal:	Susana Martins Oliveira
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5f2a2b695b084b66b67a81b0732171ff2021-11-26T12:44:19ZPaul Scheerbart’s Kaleidoscopic Fantasies10.5565/rev/brumal.4142014-7910https://doaj.org/article/5f2a2b695b084b66b67a81b0732171ff2017-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://revistes.uab.cat/brumal/article/view/414https://doaj.org/toc/2014-7910The work of the German polymath Paul Scheerbart is attracting a renewed attention in recent years. During his prolific career, his unconventional fiction, art and poetry influenced a range of intellects, from architect Bruno Taut to Walter Benjamin, who even quoted his ideas on glass in his Arcades Project. Scheerbart wrote dozens of outer-space novels and utopian stories, plus articles and reviews, always about things like glass architecture, perfect outer-worlds and realities, reflecting extreme dreams, ambitions and fears. In this essay I will revisit Scheerbart’s various writings with an emphasis on the book Glass Architecture (1972) and the novel The Gray Cloth and Ten Percent White: A Ladies’ Novel (2001), in order to understand the metaphor of glass and colour that shaped the fantastic dimension of his work while, at the same time, reveal a myriad of ambivalent, and often opposed, meanings. Susana Martins OliveiraUniversitat Autònoma de BarcelonaarticleScheerbartfantasyarchitecturegenderfairytalesGeneral WorksAENESFRITPTBrumal: Revista de Investigación sobre lo Fantástico, Vol 5, Iss 2 (2017)
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Paul Scheerbart’s Kaleidoscopic Fantasies

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