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This book has 4 sections:
1. A thorough and enlightening introduction that goes into great detail about the three works that follow.
2. Richard Huelsenbeck's Fantastic Prayers: a collection of free-form poems which are a mixture of surreal imagery and untamed gibberish. As chaotically enigmatic as the poems are, I find this writing a little too random, whimsical and directionless. I read the words - I forgot the words.
3. Hugo Ball's Tenderenda The Fantast (the so-called "only DADA novel") is more of a novelette than a novel - it is the main event and the best part of this DADA triptych. Some amazingly descriptive and fantastical imagery here which I think will inspire readers and writers who generally enjoy absurdist literature. Fictional storytelling let off the leash! Good stuff.
4. Lastly there's Walter Serner's Last Loosening Manifesto: a short piece in 12 segments. Vibrant and "loose" writing that claims to be "the sole possible solution to the mystery of the universe"... Err, well... methinks a tongue is firmly stuck in a cheek. Interesting in an advanced horseplay kind of a way, like a madcap philosophical treatise. ( )