{"product_id":"misty-thule-paperback","title":"Misty Thule - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAdolphe Retté\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBrian Stableford\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdolphe Rett 's \u003cem\u003eMisty Thule\u003c\/em\u003e, originally published in 1891 and here translated into English for the first time by Brian Stable-ford, is one of the key documents of the Symbolist Movement, and one of the most extreme illustrations of its philosophy. Deliberately breaking the usually-imposed boundaries of poetry and prose, sensation and fantasy, stories and chapters, syntax and punctuation, it can be seen at once as a collection in the tradition of Charles Baudelaire's unfinished \u003cem\u003eSpleen de Paris\u003c\/em\u003e, an \u003cem\u003eavant-garde\u003c\/em\u003e novel, and a work of Surrealism \u003cem\u003eavant la lettre\u003c\/em\u003e, reaching toward an immediacy of raw representation that attempts to gag the censor of rationalization and liberate the anarchic thrust of the unconscious as a hidden participant in the processes of perception and mental response.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough Rett  repudiated the book in later life, on religious grounds, \u003cem\u003eMisty Thule \u003c\/em\u003eremains the most remarkable work that he produced--and, indeed, one of the most remarkable that anyone produced under the aegis of Symbolism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 150\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.35 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 21, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42712224956479,"sku":"9781943813704","price":22.32,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/651c681a2c02ee668258092943f53e43.webp?v=1765061063","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/misty-thule-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}