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100 1 _aKubin, Alfred,
_d1877-1959
245 1 4 _aDie andere Seite
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2025
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
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500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Die_andere_Seite_(Roman)
500 _aIllustrated by the author.
500 _aRelease date is 2025-04-29
508 _aJana Srna and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
520 _a"Die andere Seite: Ein phantastischer Roman" by Alfred Kubin is a novel written in the early 20th century. The story centers on a narrator, a graphic artist, who receives an enigmatic invitation from his reclusive and extraordinarily wealthy former schoolmate, Claus Patera, to move to a mysterious and isolated "Dream Realm"—an entirely artificial country cut off from modern progress. The book delves into themes of psychological tension, nostalgia, and the interplay between dream and reality, with Patera as the shadowy figure around whom the Dream Realm and its strange rules revolve. The beginning of the novel introduces us to the narrator's recollections of Claus Patera, marked by peculiar memories and a sense of foreboding tied to Patera's influence. After years apart, the narrator—now a struggling illustrator in Munich—is visited by the agent Gautsch, who delivers the bizarre proposal: to relocate, with his wife, to Patera's Dream Realm, a place meticulously crafted as a haven from modernity, where all inhabitants are carefully selected and the very air is heavy with mood and atmosphere. Skeptical but enticed by curiosity and an overwhelming financial incentive, the narrator and his wife undertake a long, surreal journey eastward, passing through unfamiliar countries before finally breaching the imposing walls of the Dream Realm. Upon arrival in the city of Perle, they encounter a somber world of perpetual twilight, antiquated customs, and a population characterized by eccentricities—all under the distant yet omnipresent gaze of Patera himself. The opening thus sets the tone for a phantasmagorical exploration of isolation, memory, and the unnerving allure of utopias. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cMünchen: Georg Müller, 1909
653 _aFantasy fiction
653 _aDreams -- Fiction
653 _aNightmares -- Fiction
653 _aImaginary places -- Fiction
653 _aAustrian fiction -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75988
999 _c116713
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