Post by the dark fourth on Aug 6, 2008 9:03:35 GMT
Presumably we may need a thread on this at some point. For the moment we might discuss the name: sounds suspiciously like a classic obscure reference to me. Wikipedia found this:
A Collage novel is a form of artist's book approaching closely (but preceding) the Graphic novel. Images are selected from other publications and collaged together following a theme or narrative (not necessarily linear).
The dadaist and surrealist Max Ernst (1891-1976) is generally credited as the inventor of the collage novel. He published the collage novels "Les Malheurs des immortels" (1922), "La Femme 100 T-22tes" (1929), "R¨ºve d'une petite fille..." (1930) and "Une Semaine de Bont¨¦" (1933-1934).
The text for "Les Malheurs des immortels" was written by Paul 0‡7luard.
And this:
Les malheurs d'Alfred (English: The Troubles of Alfred) is a 1972 French comedy film directed by and starring Pierre Richard.
And this:
Justine (or The Misfortunes of Virtue, or several other titles: see below) is a classic erotic novel by Donatien Alphonse Fran0Š4ois de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade.
Justine (original French title Les infortunes de la vertu) was an early work by the Marquis de Sade, written in two weeks in 1787 while imprisoned in the Bastille. It is a novella (187 pages) with relatively little of the obscenity which characterized his later writing as it was written in the classical style (which was fashionable at the time), with much verbose and metaphorical description.
A much extended and more graphic version, entitled Justine ou Les Malheurs de la vertu (1791) (English title: Justine, or Good Conduct Well Chastised or simply Justine) was the first of Sade's books to be published.
A further extended version La Nouvelle Justine ou Les Malheurs de la vertu was published in 1797. It was accompanied by a continuation, Juliette about Justine's sister. The two together formed 10 volumes of nearly 4000 pages in total; publication was completed in 1801. This final version, La Nouvelle Justine, departed from the first-person narrative of the previous two versions, and included around 100 engravings.
Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the arrest of the anonymous author of Justine and Juliette, and as a result Sade was incarcerated for the last 13 years of his life. Napoleon called Justine "the most abominable book ever engendered by the most depraved imagination".
A censored English translation was issued in the USA by the Risus Press in the early 1930s. The first unexpurgated English translation (by 'Pieralessandro Casavini', a pseudonym for Austryn Wainhouse) was published by the Olympia Press in 1953. Wainhouse later revised this translation for publication in the United States by Grove Press. Other versions currently in print, notably the Wordsworth edition, are abridged and heavily censored.
I quite like the idea of a PRR song based on an erotic novel...
A Collage novel is a form of artist's book approaching closely (but preceding) the Graphic novel. Images are selected from other publications and collaged together following a theme or narrative (not necessarily linear).
The dadaist and surrealist Max Ernst (1891-1976) is generally credited as the inventor of the collage novel. He published the collage novels "Les Malheurs des immortels" (1922), "La Femme 100 T-22tes" (1929), "R¨ºve d'une petite fille..." (1930) and "Une Semaine de Bont¨¦" (1933-1934).
The text for "Les Malheurs des immortels" was written by Paul 0‡7luard.
And this:
Les malheurs d'Alfred (English: The Troubles of Alfred) is a 1972 French comedy film directed by and starring Pierre Richard.
And this:
Justine (or The Misfortunes of Virtue, or several other titles: see below) is a classic erotic novel by Donatien Alphonse Fran0Š4ois de Sade, better known as the Marquis de Sade.
Justine (original French title Les infortunes de la vertu) was an early work by the Marquis de Sade, written in two weeks in 1787 while imprisoned in the Bastille. It is a novella (187 pages) with relatively little of the obscenity which characterized his later writing as it was written in the classical style (which was fashionable at the time), with much verbose and metaphorical description.
A much extended and more graphic version, entitled Justine ou Les Malheurs de la vertu (1791) (English title: Justine, or Good Conduct Well Chastised or simply Justine) was the first of Sade's books to be published.
A further extended version La Nouvelle Justine ou Les Malheurs de la vertu was published in 1797. It was accompanied by a continuation, Juliette about Justine's sister. The two together formed 10 volumes of nearly 4000 pages in total; publication was completed in 1801. This final version, La Nouvelle Justine, departed from the first-person narrative of the previous two versions, and included around 100 engravings.
Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the arrest of the anonymous author of Justine and Juliette, and as a result Sade was incarcerated for the last 13 years of his life. Napoleon called Justine "the most abominable book ever engendered by the most depraved imagination".
A censored English translation was issued in the USA by the Risus Press in the early 1930s. The first unexpurgated English translation (by 'Pieralessandro Casavini', a pseudonym for Austryn Wainhouse) was published by the Olympia Press in 1953. Wainhouse later revised this translation for publication in the United States by Grove Press. Other versions currently in print, notably the Wordsworth edition, are abridged and heavily censored.
I quite like the idea of a PRR song based on an erotic novel...
'Twas the best track at the Barfly, and is certainly a frontrunner amongst the new tracks that we've heard so far...
