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Serner, Walter

 
9788086264455: Last Loosening: A Handbook for the Con Artist & Those Aspiring to Become One
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ISBN 10 : 8086264459 ISBN 13 : 9788086264455
Editeur : Twisted Spoon Press, 2020

Synopsis

A cofounder of Dada and its enfant terrible, Walter Serner, whose demeanor has been called "a dance on the rim of a volcano," was a brilliant observer of society. His Last Loosening: A Dada Manifesto was penned in 1918 and published in 1920. Slightly revised later as he became disgusted with Dada, it forms the first part of this volume, its philosophical foundation. It presents a playful "moral codex" to subvert the illusions and stereotypes underpinning society's views on morality and decency, attacking the contradictions between appearance and reality. The volume's second part, "The Handbook of Practices," was written in Geneva in 1927 and offers a practical guide in gnomic prose for the modern amoralist, the con man. A cynical vision to be sure, Serner has set out a list of precepts to arm us in a world where boredom prevails and nothing but self-interest is a motivator, in his view a shameless, bigoted world wallowing in an orgy of narcissism, where it is either fool or be fooled. His smugness and indifference, his "Jesuit snobbery" as one critic called it, gave his work an explosive force that was unsurpassed by his contemporaries.

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À propos de l'auteur

Walter Serner was born in 1889 to a Jewish family in Carlsbad, Bohemia and studied law in Vienna. When World War I started, he escaped to Switzerland in 1914 and participated in Dada activities in Zürich, Geneva, and Paris, editing and writing for numerous magazines and composing his infamous "Dada Manifesto" in 1918. His books were banned and burned by Nazi Germany. He ultimately settled in Prague in the 1930s with his longtime partner, Dorothea Herz. They unsuccessfully tried to escape to Shanghai when Nazi Germany occupied the country and were deported "East" in 1942, perishing near Riga.

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Éditeur
Twisted Spoon Press
Date d'édition
2020
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
8086264459
ISBN 13 
9788086264455
Reliure
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Illustrateur
Haas Leo
Nombre de pages
189
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