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Hugo Ball (1886–1927)

Auteur van Flight out of Time

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Fotografie: Retrato del poeta y ensayista Hugo Ball. Fecha Fuente Fotografía anónima de 1916

Werken van Hugo Ball

Flight out of Time (1974) 105 exemplaren
Tenderenda de Fantast (1994) 53 exemplaren
Hermann Hesse (1978) 25 exemplaren
Cristianesimo bizantino (1958) 12 exemplaren
Dionysios Areopagita (1997) 2 exemplaren

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Cuando Hermann Hesse cumplió cincuenta años, en 1927, su amigo Hugo Ball, a quien conocía desde 1920 y con quien compartía entonces la condición de «enemigo de la patria» por su oposición a la guerra, le dedicó el libro que hoy presentamos. Más que estricta biografía, Hermann Hesse, su vida y su obra es minuciosa descripción de un periplo espiritual desde la proximidad de quien comparte universo («Ha sido a lo largo de muchos años un ejemplo para nosotros, que en muchos momentos de necesidad nos ha estimulado confortándonos y en muchos momentos de debilidad nos ha reconvenido exhortándonos» afirmó Hesse de Ball). Una lectura iluminadora y un relato que se despliega en aquella mágica zona en que vida y literatura se confunden.… (meer)
 
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Natt90 | Jul 22, 2022 |
HHmmm... When I found this new in a Half-Price Books in Dallas for something like a dollar it struck me as a great find. Why was it so cheap?! Usually such cheapness seems to translate into something like: 'unsaleability due to complexity &/or obscurity &/or intelligence'. SO, is that the case here? Dunno. For me, the selling point is that the bk centers around a lengthy text by Hugo Ball, well-known dadaist. I've never heard of the co-creator of this particular bk: Jonathan Hammer.

IF the bk had simply been a translation of Ball's original, it wd've gotten a 4 star rating, IF the bk had included as Hammer's only contribution his excellent essay at the end, it might've gotten a 5 star rating. The essay is fascinating & esoteric & scholarly & rich. ALAS, it also includes Hammer's illustrations wch I.. well, one might say, DETEST. That's really too strong but, despite the illustrations' purportedly transgressive nature, I found them bland & trite to an extreme. B/c of them, I almost gave this bk a 3 star rating.. - but, no, the essay's too damned good.
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tENTATIVELY | Apr 3, 2022 |
DA DA DA
This book has 4 sections:
1. A thorough and enlightening introduction that goes into great detail about the three works that follow.
2. Richard Huelsenbeck's Fantastic Prayers: a collection of free-form poems which are a mixture of surreal imagery and untamed gibberish. As chaotically enigmatic as the poems are, I find this writing a little too random, whimsical and directionless. I read the words - I forgot the words.
3. Hugo Ball's Tenderenda The Fantast (the so-called "only DADA novel") is more of a novelette than a novel - it is the main event and the best part of this DADA triptych. Some amazingly descriptive and fantastical imagery here which I think will inspire readers and writers who generally enjoy absurdist literature. Fictional storytelling let off the leash! Good stuff.
4. Lastly there's Walter Serner's Last Loosening Manifesto: a short piece in 12 segments. Vibrant and "loose" writing that claims to be "the sole possible solution to the mystery of the universe"... Err, well... methinks a tongue is firmly stuck in a cheek. Interesting in an advanced horseplay kind of a way, like a madcap philosophical treatise.
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BlackGlove | Jan 20, 2018 |
Giovanni [Climaco] rappresenta il carcere come "plaga dell'afflizione e prigione del tradimento". Come un'aia di fuoco, sulla quale gli angeli trebbiano il grano divino. Come luogo di tormento e di inni, di beatitudine e di inabissamento. Qui si compiono opere che superano quel che l'occhio ha visto e l'orecchio ha udito, e che possono "fare violenza perfino a Dio".

Il luogo di pena si trova a un miglio dal monastero.[...] Con i ceppi ai piedi, i discepoli dello spirito se ne stanno in singole celle e lì rimangono, finché l'igumeno, dietro ispirazione divina, non li libera dalla tortura.

Miseri combattono contro il sonno e le debolezze della natura, per esplodere poi in oltraggi e dileggi alla propria persona. Altri indugiano nella preghiera. Con le mani legate dietro la schiena, e la faccia, sconvolta dalla tristezza, rivolta a terra, è come se nella vergogna e nella confusione della coscienza, non osassero invocare Dio. Esitanti in tutto ciò che dicono, e in come lo dicono, esprimono solo le loro "tenebre" e la loro "sublime disperazione".

Altri se ne stanno come inanimati. Uno spavento li ha pietrificati e ha cacciato la loro coscienza "nel silenzio eterno dell'oscurità".
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