Works by the polymathic French author Victor Segalen, including a previously untranslated essay, a novel, and a libretto.
Victor Segalen (1878-1919) had one of France's most curious literary careers, applying his imagination to musicology, ethnography, exploration, medicine, synesthetics, Chinese history, and the occult. This collection gathers together his previously untranslated essay"Synesthestics and the Symbolist School" and his novel In A Sound World, a work of fantasy concerning an inventor lost in his own immersive harmonic space. Segalen's medical training (he had a career as a ship's doctor) inspired an interest in the link between the prevailing Symbolism of the time and synesthesia, the condition whereby one sense affects the perception of another.
This edition also includes an essay by the musician and cultural historian David Toop that explores the historical context of Segalen's ideas. Also included is Segalen's libretto for Orpheus Rex, a collaboration with the composer Claude Debussy, which he would use as an opportunity for further explorations of his synesthetic concepts. This book makes available all three texts for the first time in English.
| ISBN: | 9781907222801 |
| Publication date: | 29th November 2021 |
| Author: | Victor Segalen |
| Publisher: | Strange Attractor Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 187 pages |
| Series: | Strange Attractor Press |
| Genres: |
Fiction companions Art music, orchestral and formal music |
Works by the polymathic French author Victor Segalen, including a previously untranslated essay, a novel, and a libretto.
Victor Segalen (1878-1919) had one of France's most curious literary careers, applying his imagination to musicology, ethnography, exploration, medicine, synesthetics, Chinese history, and the occult. This collection gathers together his previously untranslated essay"Synesthestics and the Symbolist School" and his novel In A Sound World, a work of fantasy concerning an inventor lost in his own immersive harmonic space. Segalen's medical training (he had a career as a ship's doctor) inspired an interest in the link between the prevailing Symbolism of the time and synesthesia, the condition whereby one sense affects the perception of another.
This edition also includes an essay by the musician and cultural historian David Toop that explores the historical context of Segalen's ideas. Also included is Segalen's libretto for Orpheus Rex, a collaboration with the composer Claude Debussy, which he would use as an opportunity for further explorations of his synesthetic concepts. This book makes available all three texts for the first time in English.
In a Sound World features in the following genres: Fiction companions, Art music, orchestral and formal music
In a Sound World is available in Paperback
In a Sound World was written by Victor Segalen and published by Strange Attractor Press
In a Sound World has 187 pages
Yes it is part of Strange Attractor Press series