Malcolm green translator (4 Ergebnisse)

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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Scarce paperback, out-of-print according to the publisher's website, 107 pages [+5], NOT ex-library. Gentle yellow age-discolourations inside both covers. Book is clean, tightly-bound, with unmarked text, free of inscriptions and stamps. A touch of wear to tips of corners, straight uncreased spine. -- Wolfgang Bauer is best known in his native Austria as a playwright and director, and as the author of a single novel: The Feverhead, written in 1966. -- The Feverhead is written in the form of letters between a couple of not-very-bright Austrians. Their correspondence is doomed to failure, nearly every letter crosses in the post and yet they succeed in their quest: the search for a perfect thermometer (and a serial murderer). In fact they both independently discover the secret of the universe in a remote spot thousands of miles from their intended (and different) destinations. Bauer's comedy of errors is enacted by an unusual cast that includes microscopic schoolgirls, ambiguously sexed nuns, incompetent detectives, two ultimately bad poets, living steam engines and a venerable three-eyed sea-captain whose two bodies always remain exactly 3.5 metres apart, not to mention: ULF.…

London: Atlas Press. 1998. Square 8vo. Original white wrappers, in white dust-jacket signed by Brus, Muehl and Nitsch in pencil to front panel, black cloth slipcase; pp. 257, [1], [6 (translator's notes)]; with pamphlet loosely inserted; slight discoloration to wrappers; near fine.Limited first edition, no. 90 of 100 copies signed by the artists, accompanied by a pamphlet containing ten photographs which had been censored from the book (one of 100 hors commerce copies from a total edition of 200).Arguably the most provocative performance artists of the twentieth century, The Viennese Actionists pushed the boundaries of performance art. As four of the most radical Actionists, Brus, Muehl, Nitsch and Schwarzkogler caused wide controversy by violently confronting the sensibilities of midstream bourgeois society, and forcing it to acknowledge repressed memories of the 1930s and '40s.Gunter Brus served a six-month prison sentence following the performance Art and Revolution in 1968 during which he sang the Austrian National Anthem while covered in his own faeces. Similarly, Nitsch was imprisoned for enacting extreme sex acts, sometimes involving animals. In the Hamburg Film Festival, in Piss Aktion, Muehl stood naked and urinated into Brus' mouth live on stage. Atlas Arkive Seven is a complete compilation of their extensive bodies of works.…