Fantastic Orgy
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Author: Frey, Alexander M.
First published in Germany in 1924, 'Fantastic Orgy' is most notable for its title story, an account of a drinking rout organised for maimed beggars in honour of a sideshow attraction, a mechanical woman doomed to early death through disintegration from entertaining the masses. All four stories, however, explore the emotional and material needs of a crippled society and the economic trap of poverty. Alexander Frey presents the troubling notion of a prosthetic humanity for damaged times.Alexander M. Frey (1881–1957) was a German author whose antiwar novel 'Die Pflasterkästen' ('The Cross Bearers') is considered by some critics to be superior to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. Frey refused to join the National Socialist Party, despite having served as a medic in the trenches of World War I alongside dispatcher Adolf Hitler, and fled Germany during World War II.
ISBN 9781939663948. Wakefield Press. pb. 88 pages. 17.8 x 11.4 cm.
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First published in Germany in 1924, 'Fantastic Orgy' is most notable for its title story, an account of a drinking rout organised for maimed beggars in honour of a sideshow attraction, a mechanical woman doomed to early death through disintegration from entertaining the masses. All four stories, however, explore the emotional and material needs of a crippled society and the economic trap of poverty. Alexander Frey presents the troubling notion of a prosthetic humanity for damaged times.Alexander M. Frey (1881–1957) was a German author whose antiwar novel 'Die Pflasterkästen' ('The Cross Bearers') is considered by some critics to be superior to 'All Quiet on the Western Front'. Frey refused to join the National Socialist Party, despite having served as a medic in the trenches of World War I alongside dispatcher Adolf Hitler, and fled Germany during World War II.
ISBN 9781939663948. Wakefield Press. pb. 88 pages. 17.8 x 11.4 cm.
available