{"product_id":"in-a-sound-world-paperback","title":"In a Sound World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eVictor Segalen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eR. W. M. Hunt\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eMarie Roux\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWorks by the polymathic French author Victor Segalen, including a previously untranslated essay, a novel, and a libretto.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor Segalen (1878-1919) had one of France's most curious literary careers, applying his imagination to musicology, ethnography, exploration, medicine, synesthetics, Chinese history, and the occult. This collection gathers together his previously untranslated essay\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\"Synesthestics and the Symbolist School\" and his novel \u003ci\u003eIn A Sound World\u003c\/i\u003e, a work of fantasy concerning an inventor lost in his own immersive harmonic space. Segalen's medical training (he had a career as a ship's doctor) inspired an interest in the link between the prevailing Symbolism of the time and synesthesia, the condition whereby one sense affects the perception of another.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis edition also includes an essay by the musician and cultural historian David Toop that explores the historical context of Segalen's ideas. Also included is Segalen's libretto for \u003ci\u003eOrpheus Rex, \u003c\/i\u003ea collaboration with the composer Claude Debussy, which he would use as an opportunity for further explorations of his synesthetic concepts. This book makes available all three texts for the first time in English.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor Segalen, hailed by Jorge Luis Borges as one of the most brilliant writers of the age, was a polymathic author work included poetry, novels, and ethnographic essays including \u003ci\u003eSteles\u003c\/i\u003e (1912) \u003ci\u003eRene Leys\u003c\/i\u003e (1922), and \u003ci\u003eEssay on Exoticism: An Aesthetics of Diversity\u003c\/i\u003e, now widely considered to be important early gestures towards a new form of postcolonial interpretation. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eDavid Toop is a musician, writer, and Professor of Audio Culture and Improvisation at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eOcean of Sound\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Sinister Resonance\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Into the Maelstrom\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand other books.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7 x 4.8 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 14, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51770032488736,"sku":"9781907222801","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/837d36418862f172934b9502dfa15802.webp?v=1780362798","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/in-a-sound-world-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}