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Peter Schlemihl

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  • "The first published work of John Gincano, a virtually unknown master of foreboding expressionistic woodcuts. Executed at the advent of the Great Depression (the zenith of the Expressionist era), these grim woodcuts compare with the best work of Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Vasily Kandinsky, and Emile Nolde. As Willy Pogany states in his preface, "Gincano's delightful woodcuts not only illustrate Schlemihl's peregrinations, but describe a life partly his own. They illuminate this charming satirical romance and are fully imbued with the whimsical spirit of the book, rendered as they are with masterful simplicity and telling originality. The idea of illustrating 'Peter Schlemihl' with woodcuts is a very fortunate one, as it not only suggests the period when Chamisso wrote this immortal fantasy, but somehow by its very nature of strong contrasts in Black and White constantly brings to mind the lost 'shadow'" (p. 4). -- vendor description."

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  • "Powieść niemiecka"
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  • "Peter Schlemihl / the man who sold his shadow"
  • "Peter Schlemihl"@en
  • "Peter Schlemihl"
  • "El hombre sin sombra (novela completa)"@es
  • "El hombre sin sombra : (novela completa)"
  • "Peter Schlemihls wundersame Geschichte"

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