{"product_id":"cocaine-selected-writings-paperback","title":"Cocaine: Selected Writings - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWalter Rheiner\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBradley Schmidt\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eGijs Van Koningsveld\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eClearly, someone had spoken the word, the fatal word that towered over the firmament of his nights and slowly cut him into pieces, a remorseless machine even in its sound: 'Co-caine  ... Co-caine ' Bit by bit it cut him up, until someday soon he would be pulverised entirely.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWalter Rheiner\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003eremains virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, despite a small but remarkable oeuvre which explores typical Expressionist themes - including metropolitan estrangement, intoxication and the horrors of trench warfare - in a manner as daring and poignant as that of better known contemporaries such as Trakl or Heym.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRheiner's was a short-lived career; most of his output was originally published between 1917-1918. An attempt to escape active service in World War I by posing as a drug addict marked the onset of his lifelong dependency on cocaine and, later, morphine. In the hallucinatory novella \u003cem\u003eCocaine\u003c\/em\u003e, Rheiner provides the reader with an arresting close-up of Berlin's underbelly during the war years. The demise of the novella's protagonist Tobias foreshadows the author's own tragic end; he died at the age of 30 from an overdose of morphine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis bilingual edition, the first to present Rheiner in English translation, includes the bulk of his known prose work as well as a small but representative sample of his poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 162\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.37 x 8 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 12, 2017\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47255274979577,"sku":"9789492027139","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/In_fzfMGhq9789492027139.webp?v=1768721085","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/cocaine-selected-writings-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}