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Mountains Oceans Giants

An Epic of the 27th Century

ISBN-13: 9781912916252

Author(s): Alfred Doblin

Subjects: FA, FBA

Publisher: Galileo Publishing

Publisher Imprint: Galileo E Book Account

Publication Date: 19-03-2021

Format: Ebook

Availability: In stock

£7.99
Mountains Oceans Giants

About the book

I know of no attempt in literature that pulls together so boldly and directly the human and the divine, piling on every kind of action, thought, desire, love... Here perhaps the true face of 'Expressionism' reveals itself for the first time. - Max Krell The 27th century: beleaguered elites decide to melt the Greenland icecap. Why? - to open up a new continent, for colonisation by the unruly masses. How? - by harvesting the primordial heat of the Earth from Iceland's volcanoes. Nature fights back, and it all goes horribly wrong... In the early 1920s confirmed city-dweller Alfred D�blin - he was 15 before he saw his first cherry tree - became puzzled by a nagging sense of Nature: ' I experienced Nature as a secret. Physics as the surface, begging for explanations. Textbooks... knew nothing of the secret. Every day I experienced Nature as the World Being, meaning: weight, colour, light, dark, its countless materials, as a cornucopia of processes that quietly mingle and criss-cross.' Readers accustomed to following a story via Plot and Character may at first be disoriented by this epic of the future. Its structure is more symphonic than novelistic, driven by themes and motifs that emerge, fade back, emerge again in new orchestral voicings and new tempi. The prose - supple, rhythmic, harsh, elegiac, tender, unsparing - propels the reader on through scene after vivid scene. Mountains Oceans Giants is a literary counterpart to the painted dreams and nightmares of Hieronymus Bosch, in The Garden of Earthly Delights and The Last Judgement.