as well as a fascinating portrayal of Japan in a moment of transition
as World War II and cold war shifts in the political landscape doomed many of these artists to decades of obscurity and exile
interviews with writers (Jacques Sternberg was the literary editor)
She also wrote four fantasy novels for a slightly older audience
The Turkish Psychedelic Music Explosion tells the story of a musical movement that was brought to an end by a right-wing coup in 1980
Speaking to the Rose - Robert Walser Stefan Themerson as well as a fascinatingSpeaking to the Rose: Writings, 1912 1932 by Robert Walser, translated by Christopher Middleton ISBN 9780803298330 paperback from Bison Books. *** After a wandering, precarious life during which he produced poems, essays, stories, and novels, Walser entered an insane asylum, saying, I am not here to write, but to be mad. Many of the unpublished works he left were in fact written in an idiosyncratically abbreviated script that was for years dismissed