Bebuquin
"Bebuquin" , with a sub-title Die Dilettanten des Wunders or: The cheap rigor , is a prose work by the writer Carl Einstein published in 1912 , which is usually assigned to absolute prose and is considered a forerunner of Expressionism and Dadaism ; in particular, the work is also considered to be an important influence on Gottfried Benn , who was known as Carl Einstein . Almost forgotten for a long time, the text was rediscovered from the 1970s and interpreted as a radical departure from the bourgeoisie of the Wilhelmine era. An action cannot be clearly reproduced; the figures, first and foremost Bebuquin and Nebuchadnezzar Bohm, who was dead by his own conviction and who had his brain covered in silver, declaim or shout numerous philosophical theses. The two main characters can be seen as Carl Einstein's alter egos ; both have different relationships with the fat and often almost naked lady Euphemia. In the end, Bebuquin appears to be dead. A modern critic wrote in the magazine Der Spiegel , admiringly, about the text: "There is no psychology, any atmospheric description, and there is a lack of comprehensible courses of action and clearly contoured figures."
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The first four chapters were printed in 1907 under the title Mr. Giorgio Bebuquin in The Opals ; In 1912 the entire text appeared under the same title in the publishing house of the weekly Die Aktion . In 1917 the same publisher published an abridged version under the shorter title Bebuquin .
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Review notes on Bebuquin at perlentaucher.de
- ↑ Expressionism ( Memento from October 17, 2018 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ https://www.hausarbeiten.de/document/66128