{"product_id":"fantastic-orgy-9781939663948","title":"Fantastic Orgy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMaimed beggars, female automatons, cultural prosthetics: four tales of opulence, poverty and grotesque empathy from the Weimar Republic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published in 1924, \u003ci\u003eFantastic Orgy\u003c\/i\u003e is most notable for its title story, an account of a drinking rout organized for maimed beggars in honor of a sideshow attraction, a mechanical woman doomed to early death through disintegration from entertaining the masses--a depiction of a robotic woman preceding by several years Fritz Lang's less sympathetic presentation in \u003ci\u003eMetropolis\u003c\/i\u003e. All four stories, however, explore the emotional and material needs of a crippled society, the economic trap of poverty and the hypocritical righteousness of charity. Like an etching by Georg Grosz or Otto Dix translated into literary form, Alexander Frey presents the troubling, at times fantastical notion of a prosthetic humanity for damaged times.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlexander M. Frey\u003c\/b\u003e (1881-1957) was a German author whose antiwar novel \u003ci\u003eDie Pflasterkästen\u003c\/i\u003e (\u003ci\u003eThe Cross Bearers\u003c\/i\u003e) is considered by some critics to be superior to \u003ci\u003eAll Quiet on the Western Front\u003c\/i\u003e. Frey refused to join the National Socialist Party, despite having served as a medic in the trenches of World War I alongside dispatcher Adolf Hitler, and fled Germany during World War II.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-17617445\"\u003eAlexander M. Frey\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Wakefield Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/05\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.25lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 6.90h x 4.30w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781939663948\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1939663946\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC019000\"\u003eLiterary\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Wakefield Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48461367607533,"sku":"9781939663948","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/files\/img_d357c8c3-3c46-4042-9562-df38e520ef98.jpg?v=1753677594","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/fantastic-orgy-9781939663948","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}