![]() ![]() ![]() Very few of Scheerbart's works have been translated into English. Only naive wonder - the basis of the sublime - could promote the development of higher forms of understanding." "Scheerbart published a long succession of fantasy novels, articles, and poems between 1889 and his death in 1915, in which he insisted that the universe is far too rich and complex to be comprehended by reason alone. Scheerbart was also an important influence on Walter Benjamin who quoted his ideas on glass in his Arcades Project. Among his Berlin friends and drinking circle was Erich Mühsam, who dedicated a chapter to Scheerbart in his 'Unpolitical Memories' and Richard Dehmel. Scheerbart's fantasy essays about glass architecture influenced architects at that time, including the young Bruno Taut. The young Ernst Rowohlt published Scheerbart's bizarre poem collection Katerpoesie and became his friend. ![]() After writing in different publications he produced his first novel ' Die große Revolution' ( The Great Revolution), which was published by the Insel-Verlag. In 1892 he was one of the joint founders of the Verlag deutscher Phantasten (Publishers of German Fantasists).Īt this time he was in financial difficulties. In 1887 he worked as a poet in Berlin and tried to invent Perpetual motion machines. Paul Scheerbart began studies of philosophy and history of art in 1885. ![]()
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