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Description: Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales by Kurt Schwitters, Jack Zipes, Irvine Peacock Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. This book gathers thirty-two stories written between 1925 and Schwitters death in 1948. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is the first collection of these subversive, little-known stories in any language and the first time all but a few of them have appeared in English. Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes, one of the worlds leading authorities on fairy tales, this book gathers thirty-two stories written between 1925 and Schwitterss death in 1948--including a complete English-language recreation of The Scarecrow, a childrens book illustrated with avant-garde typography that Schwitters created with Kate Steinitz and De Stijl founder Theo van Doesburg. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales also includes brilliant new illustrations that evoke the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Schwitters wrote these darkly humorous, satirical, and surreal tales at a time when traditional German fairy tales were being co-opted by the Nazis.Filled with sharp critiques of German life during the Weimar and early Nazi eras, Schwitterss tales are rich with absurdist events and insist that not everyone--and perhaps not anyone--lives happily ever after. In "Lucky Hans," the starving protagonist tries to catch a rabbit only to have it shed its fur like a coat and run off naked into the forest. In other tales, a sarcastic gypsy stands in for a fairy godmother and an army recruit is arrested for growing to monstrous size. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is a delightfully strange and surprising book. Back Cover "In these absurdist parables, Schwitterss savage clowning empties the fairy tale of its easy consolations. He revisits the traditions in the melancholic, mordant voice of irony and satire, and, as with other fabulists--Voltaire, Swift, Kafka, Capek--his stories still speak to us now as freshly as when they were written, and entertain us richly." --Marina Warner, author of Phantasmagoria "Kurt Schwitterss fairy tales can be safely read to children, without boring the parents. While children will be delightfully dreaming themselves in wondrous worlds, the parents can contemplate existential questions and take shortcuts to understanding the absurdity of war, the vacuity of power, and the vanity of wealth. Schwitters, the most childlike Dadaist, was a fierce defender of innocence and an equally fierce critic of society. His tales are well drawn paths in a magically lit moral landscape." --Andrei Codrescu, author of The Posthuman Dada Guide "This collection of Kurt Schwitterss little-known fairy tales reveals that he was a master of literary satire in addition to being one of Weimar Germanys most prominent artists. With its elegant translations, charmingly impudent illustrations, and lively introduction, this book will earn a steady readership." --Maria Tatar, editor of The Classic Fairy Tales "This is a very enjoyable collection of subversively humorous stories, and I found myself laughing out loud while reading them. The fairy tale served as apt material for Kurt Schwitters to play with conventions, produce nonsense within well-known plots, or wreak havoc in everyday routines, all in order to critique bourgeois values, religion, nationalism, and Nazism, and to open up the imaginations of children and adults to his artistic worldview." --Cristina Bacchilega, author of Postmodern Fairy Tales "Schwitterss fairy tales are especially interesting because they document the vitality of experimentation in the genre that occurred in Germany in the first half of the twentieth century. While Grimms tales were increasingly co-opted by nationalists and fascists, writers such as Schwitters sought to rewrite the genre as a form of sociopolitical resistance and cultural reformation. Translated, edited, and introduced by Jack Zipes, the worlds leading expert on the fairy tale, this volume has a special value." --Donald Haase, editor of Marvels and Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies Author Biography Jack Zipes is a leading authority on fairy tales. His translations include The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm and The Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse (both Bantam). He is the editor of The Great Fairy Tale Tradition (Norton), and the author of Why Fairy Tales Stick and Hans Christian Andersen, among many other books. He is professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota. Table of Contents Translators Note and Acknowledgments xi Kurt Schwitters, Politics, and the Merz Fairy Tale 1 Tales Written in German Chapter 1: The Swineherd and the Great, Illustrious Writer 41 Der Schweinehirt und der Dichterfurst (1925) Chapter 2: Lucky Hans 49 Der gluckliche Hans (1925) Chapter 3: Happiness 57 Das Gluck (1925) Chapter 4: The Little Clock Spirit and the Lovers 61 Uhrgeistchen und Liebespaar (1925) Chapter 5: The Proud Young Woman 63 Das stolze Madchen (1925) Chapter 6: An Old Fairy Tale 67 Altes Marchen (1925) Chapter 7: The Scarecrow 72 Die Scheuche (1925)--A childrens book created with Kate Steinitz and Theo van Doesburg Chapter 8: He 85 Er (1927) Chapter 9: Fish and Man 103 Fisch und Mensch (1927) Chapter 10: The Squinting Doll 105 Die schielende Puppe (1927) Chapter 11: Three Suitcases 107 Drei Koff er (1927) Chapter 12: Fairy Tale 115 Marchen (1928) Chapter 13: A King without People 116 Konig ohne Volk (1932) Chapter 14: The Story about the Good Man 119 Die Fabel vom guten Menschen (1933) Chapter 15: Happy Country 121 Gluckliches Land (1933) Chapter 16: The Story about the Rabbit 123 Die Geschichte vom Hasen (1934) Chapter 17: The Three Wishes 125 Die drei Wunsche (1936) Chapter 18: The Ugly Young Woman: A Fairy Tale 131 Das hassliche Madchen: Ein Marchen (1937) Chapter 19: The Two Brothers 137 Die beiden Bruder (1938) Chapter 20: The Fish and the Ships Propeller 143 Der Fisch und die Schiff sschraube (1938) Chapter 21: Transformations 145 Verwandlungen (1938) Chapter 22: He Who Is Mentally Retarded 153 Der, der da geistig arm ist (1938) Chapter 23: Hans and Grete: A Fairy Tale about Children Who Live in the Woods 161 Hans und Grete: Marchen von Kindern, die im Walde wohnen (1939) Chapter 24: The Fairy Tale about Happiness 165 Das Marchen vom Gluck (1930-1940) Chapter 25: Normal Insanity 169 Normaler Unsinn (1930-1940) Chapter 26: What Is Happiness 173 Was ist das Gluck (1940-1945) Chapter 27: The Man with the Glass Nose 179 Der Mann mit dem glasernen Nase (1945) Chapter 28: Once upon a Time There Was a Tiny Mouse 183 Es war einmal eine kleine Maus (1941-1946) Tales Written in English Chapter 29: The Flat and the Round Painter 189 (1941) Chapter 30: London: A Fairy Tale 193 (1942) Chapter 31: The Flying Fish 197 (1944) Chapter 32: Twopenny Novel about an Ugly Girl 203 (1941-1945) Appendix: German Version of "Die Scheuche" 207 Notes 221 Bibliography 233 Review "These byproducts from [Schwitters,] a man who tried his hand at much else, and gained relatively little attention for any of it, who lived with his parents and then in the house he inherited from them in a no-account place in Germany, and then in exile, are among the few wonderful and imperishable things of the twentieth century."--Michael Hofmann, New York Review of Books "Jack Zipes has now usefully collected and translated a handy anthology of Schwitters short stories, written from 1918 to 1948, selecting those he considers to be oddly modern fairy tales. ... Schwitterss Merz fairy tales are lies that speak the truth."--Peter Read, Times Literary Supplement "Mostly unpublished during Schwitterss lifetime, the tales have been rescued from oblivion by teams of eager Germanists, and selected, translated and introduced for this edition by eminent fairytale scholar Jack Zipes. The tales are accompanied by cutely sinister illustrations by Irvine Peacock."--Justin Clemens, The Australian "Including four pieces Schwitters wrote in English--he had abandoned German, as the Nazis language--this volume stands as a substantial, chronologically representative, and delightful addition to the still small number of texts by Schwitters published in the U.S. Zipes supplies snappy translations and a thoughtful critical introduction."--Choice Long Description Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is the first collection of these subversive, little-known stories in any language and the first time all but a few of them have appeared in English. Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes, one of the worlds leading authorities on fairy tales, this book gathers thirty-two stories written between 1925 and Schwitterss death in 1948--including a complete English-language recreation of The Scarecrow, a childrens book illustrated with avant-garde typography that Schwitters created with Kate Steinitz and De Stijl founder Theo van Doesburg. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales also includes brilliant new illustrations that evoke the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Schwitters wrote these darkly humorous, satirical, and surreal tales at a time when traditional German fairy tales were being co-opted by the Nazis.Filled with sharp critiques of German life during the Weimar and early Nazi eras, Schwitterss tales are rich with absurdist events and insist that not everyone--and perhaps not anyone--lives happily ever after. In "Lucky Hans," the starving protagonist tries to catch a rabbit only to have it shed its fur like a coat and run off naked into the forest. In other tales, a sarcastic gypsy stands in for a fairy godmother and an army recruit is arrested for growing to monstrous size. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is a delightfully strange and surprising book. Review Quote "This is a very enjoyable collection of subversively humorous stories, and I found myself laughing out loud while reading them. The fairy tale served as apt material for Kurt Schwitters to play with conventions, produce nonsense within well-known plots, or wreak havoc in everyday routines, all in order to critique bourgeois values, religion, nationalism, and Nazism, and to open up the imaginations of children and adults to his artistic worldview." --Cristina Bacchilega, author of Postmodern Fairy Tales Details ISBN0691160996 Author Irvine Peacock Pages 256 Publisher Princeton University Press Series Oddly Modern Fairy Tales Year 2014 Illustrator Irvine Peacock ISBN-10 0691160996 ISBN-13 9780691160993 Format Paperback Imprint Princeton University Press Place of Publication New Jersey Country of Publication United States DEWEY 833.912 Illustrations 31 halftones. 26 line illus. Birth 1887 Death 1948 Short Title LUCKY HANS & OTHER MERZ FAIRY Audience Age 9-12 Language English Media Book Edition Description Translated and Edition New edition Publication Date 2014-04-06 Translator Jack Zipes Translated from English UK Release Date 2014-04-06 NZ Release Date 2014-04-06 US Release Date 2014-04-06 Alternative 9780691139678 Audience General AU Release Date 2014-06-16 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:78730239;

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