2014, ISBN: b2c8bd5216ee4a27cf4ab9b88a91db7a

[PU: -Princeton University Press -], LUCKY HANS AND OTHER MERZ FAIRY TALES 993, Second impression of first paperback printing 2014. xiii+235 pages. Illustrated. Paperback. Fine. Kurt Schw… Plus…

[PU: -Princeton University Press -], LUCKY HANS AND OTHER MERZ FAIRY TALES 993, Second impression of first paperback printing 2014. xiii+235 pages. Illustrated. Paperback. Fine. Kurt Schwitters revolutionized the art world in the 1920s with his Dadaist Merz collages, theater performances, and poetry. But at the same time he was also writing extraordinary fairy tales that were turning the genre upside down and inside out. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is the first collection of these subversive, little-known stories in any language and the first time all but a few of them have appeared in English. Translated and introduced by Jack Zipes, one of the world's leading authorities on fairy tales, this book gathers thirty-two stories written between 1925 and Schwitters's death in 1948--including a complete English-language recreation of The Scarecrow, a children's book illustrated with avant-garde typography that Schwitters created with Kate Steinitz and De Stijl founder Theo van Doesburg. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales also includes brilliant new illustrations that evoke the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Schwitters wrote these darkly humorous, satirical, and surreal tales at a time when traditional German fairy tales were being co-opted by the Nazis. Filled with sharp critiques of German life during the Weimar and early Nazi eras, Schwitters's tales are rich with absurdist events and insist that not everyone--and perhaps not anyone--lives happily ever after. In "Lucky Hans," the starving protagonist tries to catch a rabbit only to have it shed its fur like a coat and run off naked into the forest. In other tales, a sarcastic gypsy stands in for a fairy godmother and an army recruit is arrested for growing to monstrous size. Lucky Hans and Other Merz Fairy Tales is a delightfully strange and surprising book.<

2009, ISBN: b2c8bd5216ee4a27cf4ab9b88a91db7a

Princeton University Press, Princeton 2009. 20.0 x 14.0cms, 236pp, b/w illusts, very gpppd+ hardback & dustwrapper Schwitters, 'the most childlike Dadaist' wrote these 32 satirical and… Plus…

Princeton University Press, Princeton 2009. 20.0 x 14.0cms, 236pp, b/w illusts, very gpppd+ hardback & dustwrapper Schwitters, 'the most childlike Dadaist' wrote these 32 satirical and surreal tales at a time when the Nazis were coopting traditional German fairy tales (1925-1948). They are rich with absurdist events and not everyone lives happily ever after., Princeton University Press, Princeton 2009, 0<

2009, ISBN: b2c8bd5216ee4a27cf4ab9b88a91db7a

Princeton University Press, Princeton 2009 Vg/vg near fine both. appears unread. dj is clean and sharp-cornered. not price clipped. contents are clean and bright . no marginalia or marki… Plus…

Princeton University Press, Princeton 2009 Vg/vg near fine both. appears unread. dj is clean and sharp-cornered. not price clipped. contents are clean and bright . no marginalia or markings . tightly bound in and all pages present. 1st Edition, 1st Printing., Princeton University Press, Princeton 2009, 0<

2009, ISBN: b2c8bd5216ee4a27cf4ab9b88a91db7a

Princeton, 2009. First edition, first printing. Fine and bright in like illustrated dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Very attractive all around and well illustrated. These … Plus…

Princeton, 2009. First edition, first printing. Fine and bright in like illustrated dustjacket with crisp bright text throughout. Very attractive all around and well illustrated. These are Schwitters' fairy tales. Gift quality, Princeton, 2009, 0<