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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Works by the polymathic French author Victor Segalen, including a
previously untranslated essay, a novel, and a libretto. Victor
Segalen (1878-1919) had one of France's most curious literary
careers, applying his imagination to musicology, ethnography,
exploration, medicine, synesthetics, Chinese history, and the
occult. This collection gathers together his previously
untranslated essay"Synesthestics and the Symbolist School" and his
novel In A Sound World, a work of fantasy concerning an inventor
lost in his own immersive harmonic space. Segalen's medical
training (he had a career as a ship's doctor) inspired an interest
in the link between the prevailing Symbolism of the time and
synesthesia, the condition whereby one sense affects the perception
of another. This edition also includes an essay by the musician and
cultural historian David Toop that explores the historical context
of Segalen's ideas. Also included is Segalen's libretto for Orpheus
Rex, a collaboration with the composer Claude Debussy, which he
would use as an opportunity for further explorations of his
synesthetic concepts. This book makes available all three texts for
the first time in English.
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