Potsdamer Platz, or, The Nights of the New Messiah
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Author: Curt Corrinth
Originally published in German in 1919, Potsdamer Platz was Curt Corrinth’s first novel to employ an expressionistic, frenetic prose and presented his excessive vision of free love. Inspired by the sex theories of Freud’s controversial disciple Otto Gross, Corrinth preached the sexual orgy as a means to salvation and universal copulation as a new world religion. This first English translation includes the original illustrations done by Paul Klee for the book’s 1920 deluxe edition.
ISBN 9781939663672. Wakefield Press. pb. 112 pages. 10 b/w ills. 11.4 x 17.8 cm.
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Originally published in German in 1919, Potsdamer Platz was Curt Corrinth’s first novel to employ an expressionistic, frenetic prose and presented his excessive vision of free love. Inspired by the sex theories of Freud’s controversial disciple Otto Gross, Corrinth preached the sexual orgy as a means to salvation and universal copulation as a new world religion. This first English translation includes the original illustrations done by Paul Klee for the book’s 1920 deluxe edition.
ISBN 9781939663672. Wakefield Press. pb. 112 pages. 10 b/w ills. 11.4 x 17.8 cm.
available