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Bottom's Dream (German: Zettels Traum or ZETTEL'S TRAUM as the author wrote the title) is a novel published in 1970 by West German author Arno Schmidt.Schmidt began writing the novel in December 1963 while he and Hans Wollschläger were translating the works of Edgar Allan Poe into German. [1]
Some critics even dismissed Bottom's Dream as non-art, or sheer nonsense, and Schmidt himself as a "psychopath". But Schmidt's reputation as esoteric , and that of his work as non-art, has faded and he is now seen as an important, if highly eccentric, German writer of the 20th century.
Edwin Landseer, Scene from A Midsummer Night's Dream (1851) Titania adoring Bottom.Oil on canvas by Henry Fuseli, c. 1790. Nick Bottom is a character in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream who provides comic relief throughout the play.
John Edwin Woods (August 16, 1942 – February 15, 2023) [1] [2] was an American translator who specialized in translating German literature, since about 1978.His work includes much of the fictional prose of Arno Schmidt and the works of contemporary authors such as Ingo Schulze and Christoph Ransmayr.
The new dark comedy “Bottoms” is getting a lot of buzz. The R-rated movie, directed by Emma Seligman, stars Rachel Sennott and Ayo Edebiri, and previously premiered at this year’s SXSW ...
Bottom's Dream; Mad Lady Macbeth; Henze's descriptions of the first sonata. My idea of developing music from Richard of Gloucester's monologue 'Now is the winter of ...
Headlines in the mainstream media are often notorious for getting it wrong. But in the case of the recent Wall Street Journal story about how renting is the "new American Dream," the questionable ...
1. The Dream: Random Sex with a Stranger. So your promiscuous side came out to play with a total stranger while you were sound asleep and you’re wondering what this risky business was all about.