{"product_id":"misty-thule-adolphe-rett-9781943813704","title":"Misty Thule","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdolphe Rett 's \u003cem\u003eMisty Thule\u003c\/em\u003e, originally published in 1891 and here translated into English for the first time by Brian Stable-ford, is one of the key documents of the Symbolist Movement, and one of the most extreme illustrations of its philosophy. Deliberately breaking the usually-imposed boundaries of poetry and prose, sensation and fantasy, stories and chapters, syntax and punctuation, it can be seen at once as a collection in the tradition of Charles Baudelaire's unfinished \u003cem\u003eSpleen de Paris\u003c\/em\u003e, an \u003cem\u003eavant-garde\u003c\/em\u003e novel, and a work of Surrealism \u003cem\u003eavant la lettre\u003c\/em\u003e, reaching toward an immediacy of raw representation that attempts to gag the censor of rationalization and liberate the anarchic thrust of the unconscious as a hidden participant in the processes of perception and mental response.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough Rett  repudiated the book in later life, on religious grounds, \u003cem\u003eMisty Thule \u003c\/em\u003eremains the most remarkable work that he produced--and, indeed, one of the most remarkable that anyone produced under the aegis of Symbolism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Adolphe Retté\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1943813701\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781943813704\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Snuggly Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/21\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.35d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/25\/2018","brand":"Adolphe Retté","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43988089012479,"sku":"9781943813704","price":15.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_d7814349-e0d2-448a-8ebd-72bb1d035352.jpg?v=1683292556","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/misty-thule-adolphe-rett-9781943813704","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}