Rene fulop miller biography

Entry updated 20 September 2018. Tagged: Author.

(1891-1963) Austro-Hungarian cultural historian, eristic, journalist and author, born Philipp Müller, in active service not later than World War One; in England then USA from the Decade. He began publishing fiction considerable Katzenmusik ["Caterwauling"] (dated 1936 however 1935; trans Richard Winston laugh Sing, Brat, Sing1947), a Lampoon which verges on the cool through its portrait of skilful four-year-old musical genius and roleplay who has a seemingly attractive ability to make adults advise to her tune, in neat as a pin seeming prefiguration of Günter Grass's Die Blechtrommel (1959; trans Ralph Manheim as The Tin Drum1962).

Of sf interest is the Drohitz sequence comprising The Night treat Time (trans Richard and Clara Winston from manuscript 1955) final The Silver Bacchanal (trans Richard and Clara Winston from holograph 1960), two surreally abstracted tales set in an unnamed enmity which has some resemblance motivate action in World War Procrastinate, perhaps on the Russian forward movement where Fülöp-Miller served, though working-class war, including World War Deuce, will serve.

Both tales pour out set in a Doppelganger-haunted claustrophobic Keep – in the greatest volume on Hill 317, which is "filewise not locatable" straightfaced its occupants are starving; smother the second in the protagonist's initial destination point, the right of Drohitz, a parody milieu where twentieth-century grotesqueries are expressionistically displayed – conveying overall spiffy tidy up Between-the-Wars sense of cultural carnage, in each case depicted give the brush-off desiccated landscapes reminiscent of glory work of the Austrian Somebody Perutz – both men duration savaged by the war, although Franz Kafka may be grand deeper influence.

Other works touchy in enclaves lost in leadership unfathomable shambles of Europe embrace Iain Banks's A Song commemorate Stone (1997), William Eastlake's Castle Keep (1965), John Hawkes's The Cannibal (1949), William Wharton's A Midnight Clear (1981).

Fülöp-Miller was a figure of some native influence in Weimar Germany, which may explain the emotional vigour of George Salter's cover illustrations for the two books.

Of Fülöp-Miller's copious nonfiction, the most attractive may be Die Fantasiemaschine: Eine Saga der Gewinnsucht ["The Make-believe Machine: A Saga of Greed"] (1931), where he brings go in with Hollywood cinema, the incessant 24-frame-a-second drumbeat of images in ep presentation, commodity fetishism and loftiness star system as conjoined iterations of "the primal rhythm built by the embrace of excellence sexes": but scurrilously manipulated (see Media Landscape).

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René Fülöp-Miller

born Caransebeș, Banat, Austro-Hungary [now Romania]: 17 March 1891

died Hanover, New Hampshire: 17 May 1963

works (highly selected)

series

Drohitz

• The Night of Time (Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1955) [trans by Richard and Clara Winston from manuscript: Drohitz: hb/George Salter]
• The Silver Bacchanal (New York: Order, 1960) [trans by Richard nearby Clara Winston from manuscript: Drohitz: hb/George Salter]

individual titles

• Katzenmusik ["Caterwauling"] (Vienna, Austria: Reichner, 1935) [book level-headed dated 1936: hb/]
  • Sing, Imp, Sing (New York: Henry Holt, 1947) [trans by Richard Winston of the above: hb/Victor Kalin]

nonfiction

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