METROPOLIS. ROMÁN ...
Praha: Ustredni Delnicke Knihkupectvi a Nakladatelstvi (A. Sveceny), 1927. Octavo, pp. [1-6] 7-238 [239] [240: blank], sixty-five film stills throughout the text, original blue cloth, front panel stamped in black and gold, spine panel stamped in gold, rear panel stamped in blind, top edge stained blue, decorated endpapers. First printing of this edition. Anti-utopia set in a gigantic city in the year 2000 "where capitalists oppress a mass of proletarian helots." - Fisher, p. 128. A restitution fantasy in which a patriarchal order is ultimately reestablished. The Fritz Lang movie adaptation had a mythic scale that would not be challenged -- "The Shape of Things to Come" aside -- for decades to come. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1976) 3-23; (1981) 2-112; (1987) 2-123; (1995) 2-132; and (2004) II-1197. Bleiler, Science-Fiction: The Early Years 1040. Fisher, Fantasy and Politics: Visions of the Future in the Weimar Republic, pp. 126-37; 139-42. Lewis, Utopian Literature, p. 198. Survey of Science Fiction Literature III, pp. 1383-86. Lexikon 2, pp. 134-6. Bloch (2002) 1370. Nagl, p. 256]. Spine panel faded, slightly leaned, a very good copy. (18923). Item #18923
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