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In the last days of 1907, the German novelist and exponent of glass architecture Paul Scheerbart embarked upon an attempt to invent a perpetual motion machine. For the next two and a half years he would document his ongoing efforts (and failures) from his laundry-room-cum-laboratory, hiring plumbers and mechanics to construct his models while spinning out a series of imagined futures that his invention-in-the-making was going to enable. The Perpetual Motion Machine: The Story of an Invention , originally published in German in 1910, is an indefinable blend of diary, diagrams and digression that falls somewhere between memoir and reverie: a document of what poet and translator Andrew Joron calls a "two-and-a-half-year-long tantrum of the imagination." Shifting ambiguously from irony to enthusiasm and back, Scheerbart's unique amalgamation of visionary humor and optimistic failure ultimately proves to be a more literary invention than scientific: a perpetual motion of a fevered imagination that reads as if Robert Walser had tried his hand at science fiction. With "toiling wheels" inextricably embedded in his head, Scheerbart's visions of rising globalization, ecological devastation, militaristic weapons of mass destruction and the possible end of literature soon lead him to dread success more than failure. The Perpetual Motion Machine is an ode to the fertility of misery and a battle cry of the imagination against praxis.

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Publisher
Wakefield Press
ISBN-10
0984115544
ISBN-13
9780984115549
eBay Product ID (ePID)
99591749

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Book Title
Perpetual Motion Machine : the Story of an Invention
Author
Paul Scheerbart
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Science Fiction / General
Publication Year
2011
Genre
Fiction

Dimensions

Item Length
7in
Item Height
0.4in
Item Width
4.4in
Item Weight
4.7 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pt2638.E4p4713 2011
Copyright Date
2011
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2011-276320
Dewey Decimal
833/.912
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Number of Pages
112 Pages

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