"Bebuquin", with Nebentitel The dilettante of the miracle or: The cheap proneness, is a prose work of the writer Carl Einstein published in 1912, which is usually assigned to absolute prose and is regarded as a precursor of Expressionism and Dadaismus; the work is also regarded as an important influence on the Gottfried Benn, known as Carl Einstein. For a long time almost forgotten the text from the seventies was rediscovered and interpreted as a radical departure from the bourgeoisie of the Wilhelminian era. An action is not clear; the figures, above all Bebuquin, and the Bohemian, who had left his own brain in silver, declaimed, screeched, and asserted numerous philosophical positions. These two chief figures can both be regarded as an alter ego of Carl Einstein; both have different relations to the most often overcrowded and often almost naked lady Euphemia. In the end, Bebuquin seems to be death. A modern critic wrote in the magazine Der Spiegel, quite admirably, about the text: "There is no psychology, every atmospheric description, and there is a lack of comprehensible action sequences and clearly contoured figures." Edit outputtext
The first four chapters were printed in The Opals in 1907 under the title of Mr. Giorgio Bebuquin; In 1912, the entire text was published under the same title in the magazine Die Aktion. In 1917 an abridged version under the shorter title Bebuquin was published in the same publishing house. Weblinks Edit sourcetext
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