Tenderenda the Fantast
| Author | Hugo Ball |
|---|---|
| Original title | Tenderenda der Phantast |
| Translator | Malcolm Green |
| Language | German |
| Publisher | Die Arche |
Publication date | 1967 |
| Publication place | Switzerland |
Published in English | 1995 |
| Pages | 135 |
Tenderenda the Fantast (German: Tenderenda der Phantast) is a novella by the German writer Hugo Ball. Set in fantastical locations, it consists of episodic chapters and functions as an allegorical story about the creation of the Dada movement in Zurich and Ball's eventual disillusionment with it.[1][2][3] The novella is characterised by satire and personal world-weariness. Ball described it as part commentary on the life he had lived, part exorcism against the aspects of the world he personally wished to abandon.[4]
Ball wrote the texts that form the book between the autumn of 1914 and July 1920. Significant parts were performed on stage at Dada soirées, but it was first published posthumously in 1967 by Die Arche in Zurich. It was published in English translation by Malcolm Green in 1995 in the volume Blago Bung, Blago Bung, Bosso Fataka! The First Texts of German Dada.[5] An English-language edition translated and illustrated by Jonathan Hammer was published in 2002.[6]
References
- ^ Sheppard, Richard (1999). "Book Reviews : Tenderenda der Phantast. By Hugo Ball. Edited by Raimund Meyer and Julian Schütt. Innsbruck: Haymon-Verlag. 1999. Pp. 128. Os 198". Journal of European Studies. 29 (3): 337–338. doi:10.1177/004724419902900318.
- ^ Mehtonen, P. M. (2013). "The Gothic Avant-Garde: A Confusion of Tongues in Gustav Meyrink and Hugo Ball". Gothic Topographies. Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781315585437.
- ^ Wild, Peter (1979). Hugo Ball 'Tenderenda der Phantast'. Untersuchungen zu Sprache und Stil. Studien zur Germanistik, Anglistik und Komparatistik (in German). Vol. 82. Bonn: Verlag Herbert Grundmann. ISBN 3416014707.
- ^ Mann, Philip (1987). Hugo Ball: An Intellectual Biography. Institute of Germanic Studies, University of London. p. 99. ISBN 0854571345.
- ^ Sheppard, Richard (2000). Modernism - Dada - Postmodernism. Northwestern University Press. p. 414. ISBN 9780810114937.
- ^ McGonigal, Mike (Fall 2002). "Ball and Hammer: Hugo Ball's Tenderenda the Fantast, by Hugo Ball, translated and illustrated by Jonathan Hammer". Bookforum.