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Author: Thea Von Harbou. Topic: Historical Fiction. Format: Paperback. Missing Information?. Item Length: 152mm. Item Height: 229mm. Language: English. Release Date: 30/07/2013.

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In the literature of Science Fiction, there is more an underappreciated and igred piece of writing than Thea Von Harbou's magnificent Metropolis. The book, a velization of the screenplay the author wrote for her husband Fritz Lang's film masterpiece of the same name, was a clever marketing move since the sales of one would drive the sales of the other. Yet the two existed as independent works of art. That proved true only too briefly. Something happened soon after the film premiered. The film studio made drastic and clumsy cuts that made the plot impossible to follow. Censors, exhibitors, and distributors further slashed the film to under 90 minutes from its original length of 153 minutes. Consequently, the film's reputation for unprecedented spectacle and imagination was forged by its transcendent and timeless visual beauty. And Van Harbou's vel was largely dismissed as an informational bridge between the film's original storyline and the multiple butchered versions. Unfortunately, that has been the way the book has been shelved for most of its publishing history. But the book has a life and a shelf of its own. If the film had never come to be made, this book would still offer a fascinating and emotionally powerful reading experience. We see the stark thematic contrasts between light and dark, God and Satan, the saintly Maria and the demonic Rotwang, the conflicts between starry dreams and manual labor, between steamy pump rooms and airplanes ferrying through bright high rise avenues. We also see romantic love and its mechanical counterfeits, a fictional aspect of the vel that has become eerily true in the age of techsexual robots. The vel has always stood on its own as a work of art, a work of romantic tions and hard experience, exploring the limits of thinking or clubbing our way out of life's most horrific challenges. The vel offers a possible resolution: The mediator between brain and muscle must be the Heart. Words that ring eternally true.

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1491215291
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9781491215296
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Thea Von Harbou
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Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
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English
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Historical & Mythological Fiction

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Author Biography
Thea Von Harbou (1888 - 1954) was a German actress, author and film director of Prussian aristocratic origin. She was born in Tauperlitz in the Kingdom of Bavaria. Her life-long fascination with India influenced certain scenes of her novel Metropolis, which was made by her husband Fritz Lang into one of the most influential films in any genre. After her marriage with Lang ended in divorce, she married Ayi Tendulkar, an Indian writer and follower of Mahatma Gandhi.
Date of Publication
30/07/2013
Country of Publication
United States

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