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Alfred Kubin's "The Other Side" is a surreal and haunting masterpiece that takes readers on a journey into the depths of the subconscious. As the protagonist, an artist named Edgar, receives an invitation to the mysterious city of Pearl, the narrative unfolds into a nightmarish and fantastical realm. Kubin's evocative imagery and psychological exploration create a chilling atmosphere, offering a unique and unsettling experience for those daring enough to peer into "The Other Side." Read more
Publisher : Revelation Press (22nd January, 2024)
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Publication date : January 22, 2024
Language : English
File size : 7.3 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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Top Amazon Reviews
Kubin walks us through a dream realm of clashing unrealities and points towards an Eastern sense of detachment as a means of escaping the disaster of the dream realm. A prophetic work that outlined the catastrophe that eventually engulfed mitteleuropa during the First World War. The haunting visions characteristic of Kubin's drawings find a home in his captivating prose.
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Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2015 by Todd Myers
This is the novel of Unutopia. It was well developed until the last chapter which seemed to be a re-written Book of Revelations. It was worth reading, but I started skimming toward the end.
Reviewed in the United States on April 22, 2015 by Idphotodoc
Format: Paperback
Very Poe like in atmosphere. Genuinely creepy. Very well written and harrowing. A warning. The last third of this book is VERY graphic, powerful and will have you getting several WTF? Moments!
Reviewed in the United States on September 27, 2015 by debra ann haines
Format: Hardcover
the picture shows a duskjacket, so I thought I was purchasing a book with duskjacket
Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2016 by rafael mazzini sosa
Format: Paperback
I have a weekness for horror.
Reviewed in the United States on June 19, 2015 by Alice R. Rogers
A man is visited by a person who is referring to an old schoolmate of the man, who in turn wants the man to come and live with him in his town in the middle of nowhere but with a good salary. As it turns out this town is built up by old houses that have been transported from Europe and other places, seemingly handpicked to give the town its special "atmosphere". It is this "atmosphere" which really constitutes the essence of the book and it is hard to describe in few words. Reading the book, I was spellbound from the beginning to the end as if I was reading something deeply essential and yet elusive and hard to pin down. The book isn't "artsy-fartsy" - don't get me wrong - there is something genuine here and a description of a panic-feeling, for instance, is absolutely correct (which is seldom the case in other books). This is the only novel Alfred Kubin wrote and he was hesitant in publishing it. We can be grateful that he did for, as it stands, it is probably the most mysterious book ever written, reminiscent of both Meyrink and Hoffman yet still genuinely unique.
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Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2011 by Karl Ericsson
The Other Side is a cult book among fans of weird fiction. It is the only novel Kubin ever wrote and, allegedly, this was done almost as a therapy, after suffering from a serious nervous break-down. Kubin is in fact better knows as an illustrator and a prominent exponent of Symbolism and Expressionism. His drawings and watercolors, some of which illustrated the works of Poe, Hoffman and Dostoevsky, are dark, spectral and occasionally morbid, the same qualities that one could easily associate with The Other Side. The novel was written over just eight weeks of manic work and it was later enriched with about 50 pen and ink drawings. The plot is rather straitghforward, up to a certain point: a nameless narrator (who happens to be an artist, just like Kubin) is invited to join Pearl, a mysterious city which has been founded deep in Asia by a long-forgotten schoolmate. Pearl is a nostalgic country, made with ruins and relics specially imported from the outside world and inhabited by a cast of eccentrics and iconoclasts. Patera, the former schoolmate, is a god-like figure that inhabits a huge Palace yet never makes an appearance. The narrator's attempts to actually meet his former buddy and the impossibility of ever attaining that (does Patera even exist? Is he just a myth, a symbol or a mystification orchestrated by the real rulers?) are very muchy reminiscent of Kafka's The Castle (which is in fact entirely non-coincidental since Kafka met Kubin and was greatly influenced by him). After a while things get even stranger, the city plunges into a nightmare and reality becomes blurred. An American millionaire joins the city and starts to actively antagonize Patera and...well, I'll leave the actual plot to you, let it suffice to say that at this stage the narrative acquires a marked surreal quality and the resulting nightmar-ish atmosphere encompasses a good dose of very graphic violence (to think this was written in 1908!). At one point, the narrator declares that art is like a `safety valve'. It's easy to see how Kubin might have tried to cure himself, by fixing on paper his anxieties and hallucinations. Apparently he succeeded in healing himself (he started his most mature artistic period shortly after the completion of the novel) and, in the process, he also gave the world an eerie masterpiece of proto-surrealism.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 26, 2012 by Simone Oltolina
Format: Hardcover
Fans and followers of Alfred Kubin, rejoice: The Other Side is a highly enjoyable evening read. I've shared my own copy throughout the years with several grateful friends, including a seventy-year old lady and a college student in his twenties... and this was everyone's "old favorite". Hand-drawn illustrations (by the author) lend the novelette real charm and intimacy. Kubin's story intrigues, is paced evenly, and -unlike many late nineteenth century literary efforts- is lightly handled. Oh yes, and its odd, subtly weird and amusingly fantastical... without being too, too cerebral. To my knowledge this is the only illustrated edition of the Die Andere Seite available in English translation. So read it first, then share the wealth.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2013 by Some Guy Some Guy