Giovanni Orelli's docufictional phantasmagoria revisits a
lesser-known painting by Paul Klee titled "Alphabet I," which
features black letters and symbols scrawled over the sports page of
a newspaper reporting the results of the 1938 Swiss National Cup.
This play of coincidences sets the stage for Orelli's encyclopedic
portrait of European culture under Nazism, where a motley crew of
philosopher-peasants as well as historical luminaries like Arthur
Schopenhauer, Vincent van Gogh, Viktor Shklovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva,
Klee himself, and the titular footballer Eugene Walaschek all meet
at the local tavern and debate the significance of Klee's work.
Allusive, ironic, and elegiac, Joycean in scope, "Walaschek's
Dream" is a singular meditation on the ephemerality of sport and
the immortalizing power of art.
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