Tenderenda the Fantast

Last updated
Tenderenda the Fantast
Tenderenda der Phantast.jpg
Author Hugo Ball
Original titleTenderenda der Phantast
TranslatorMalcolm Green
LanguageGerman
Publisher Die Arche  [ de ]
Publication date
1967
Publication placeSwitzerland
Published in English
1995
Pages135

Tenderenda the Fantast (German : Tenderenda der Phantast) is a novella by the German writer Hugo Ball. Set in fantastical locations, it consists of episodic chapters and functions as an allegorical story about the creation of the Dada movement in Zurich and Ball's eventual disillusionment with it. [1] [2] [3] The novella is characterised by satire and personal world-weariness. Ball described it as part commentary on the life he had lived, part exorcism against the aspects of the world he personally wished to abandon. [4]

Ball wrote the texts that form the book between the autumn of 1914 and July 1920. Significant parts were performed on stage at Dada soirées, but it was first published posthumously in 1967 by Die Arche  [ de ] in Zurich. It was published in English translation by Malcolm Green in 1995 in the volume Blago Bung, Blago Bung, Bosso Fataka! The First Texts of German Dada. [5] An English-language edition translated and illustrated by Jonathan Hammer was published in 2002. [6]

References

  1. ↑ Sheppard, Richard (1999). "Book Reviews : Tenderenda der Phantast. By Hugo Ball. Edited by Raimund Meyer and Julian Schütt. Innsbruck: Haymon-Verlag. 1999. Pp. 128. Os 198". Journal of European Studies . 29 (3): 337–338. doi:10.1177/004724419902900318.
  2. ↑ Mehtonen, P. M. (2013). "The Gothic Avant-Garde: A Confusion of Tongues in Gustav Meyrink and Hugo Ball". Gothic Topographies. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315585437.
  3. ↑ Wild, Peter (1979). Hugo Ball 'Tenderenda der Phantast'. Untersuchungen zu Sprache und Stil. Studien zur Germanistik, Anglistik und Komparatistik (in German). Vol. 82. Bonn: Verlag Herbert Grundmann. ISBN   3416014707.
  4. ↑ Mann, Philip (1987). Hugo Ball: An Intellectual Biography. Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London. p. 99. ISBN   0854571345.
  5. ↑ Sheppard, Richard (2000). Modernism - Dada - Postmodernism. Northwestern University Press. p. 414. ISBN   9780810114937.
  6. ↑ McGonigal, Mike (Fall 2002). "Ball and Hammer: Hugo Ball's Tenderenda the Fantast, by Hugo Ball, translated and illustrated by Jonathan Hammer". Bookforum .
Speculative fiction portal logo small transparent.png

This article about a speculative fiction novel of the 1960s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.