{"product_id":"the-mill-a-cosmos-paperback","title":"The Mill: A Cosmos - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBess Brenck Kalischer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eW. C. Bamberger\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe hallucinatory English-language debut of an overlooked German Expressionist poet\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBess Brenck Kalischer's only work of prose was first published in German in 1922. Narrated by a woman being held in a sanitarium after a mental breakdown, \u003ci\u003eThe Mill\u003c\/i\u003e is less a novel than a rhythmic, hallucinatory and fractured sequence of prose poems. On its publication, the German author Mynona described it as \"more a mill, a cosmos flower, a lyricism and romantic spell than it is a 'novel.'\" Shifting from pedestrian concerns to cosmic visions, from the setting of a basement mushroom farm to scenes on Sirius, Kalischer's narrator weaves together literary satire, anguished dream states and shifting subjectivities. As much Maldoror as Munchausen, \u003ci\u003eThe Mill\u003c\/i\u003e describes an unstable journey to psychic restoration that is as radically experimental today as when it was first published a century ago.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBess Brenck Kalischer\u003c\/b\u003e (1878-1933) was born Betty Levy in Rostock. Although she began publishing her first poems in 1905, she began to make a name for herself as part of the second generation of German Expressionists in Dresden, cofounding the Expesstionistische Arbeitsgemeinschaft Dresden (Expressionist Working Group of Dresden) alongside such members as Conrad Felixmüller. Later relocating to Berlin, she was a friend of Salomo Friedlaender\/Mynona, who used her as a model in several stories and novels. She died of a \"nervous disease\" in 1933, her grave left without a headstone until 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 88\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.4 x 6.8 x 4.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 19, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767434936608,"sku":"9781939663719","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/69c95c608ad3119f6f945a87a859a689.webp?v=1780310836","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-mill-a-cosmos-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}