And his favorite project, the perpetual motion machine, is yet to be completed. His visions of a new understanding of mankind were not very successful, but his fantasies on glass architecture inspired the expressionist architect Bruno Taut. First published in German in 1913 and widely considered to be Paul Scheerbart’s masterpiece, Lesabndio is an intergalactic utopian novel that describes life on the planetoid Pallas, where rubbery suction-footed life forms with telescopic eyes smoke bubble-weed in mushroom meadows under violet skies and green stars. Many of his novels, like Die große Revolution (1902) or Lesabéndio (1913), take place in foreign planets. Scheerbart was a convinced pacifist, and his visions of a peaceful society, without great emotions, had no place on earth. He was not only an author of fantastic literature, he also founded the Verlag deutscher Phantasten / Publishing house of German fantasists. Paul Scheerbart (1863-1915) belongs to the outsiders of German literature at the beginning of the 20th century. Paul Scheerbart: Cooling down emotions on foreign planetsĭedalus 21 (2017), pp. Necessita ativar o JavaScript para o visualizar. Centre for Comparative Studies, School of Arts and Humanities, University of LisbonĮste endereço de email está protegido contra piratas.
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