Combat de deux raffinés
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Un autre monde (Another world)[1] is a book by French illustrator Grandville, first published in 1844 by H. Fournier.
The album is subtitled Transformations, visions, incarnations, ascensions, locomotions, explorations, pérégrinations, excursions, stations, cosmogonies, fantasmagories, rêveries, folâtreries, facéties, lubies, métamorphoses, zoomorphoses, lithomorphoses, métempsycoses, apothéoses et autres choses
The fantastic metamorphoses of plants, animals and humans caused him to be revindicated as a surrealist avant la lettre by Breton.
- Un Autre Monde describes and depicts a parallel world created by three sleazy demiurges named Dr. Krackq, Dr. Puff and Dr. Hahblle. Each also travels within the world, describing its people and their customs. Obviously, the "other" world is a thinly-veiled parody of our own. Unfortunately, time has thickened the veil, and a lot of the political and cultural allusions have been lost, or at least have become a lot harder to work out.
- Some of the illustrations in the book have since become very famous, and Sir John Tenniel and many cartoonists from Punch borrowed very heavily from his imagery.[2]
Chapters
Chapters include:
La clé des champs. Apothéose du docteur Puff. L'Univers au Scrutin. Concert à la vapeur. La rhubarbe et le séné. LA TERRE EN PLAN. A vol et à vue d'oiseau. Le Carnaval en bouteille. Caractères travestis et travestissements de caractère. Déguisements physiologiques. Le Royaume des marionnettes. UNE RÉVOLUTION VÉGÉTALE. UN VOYAGE D'AVRIL. LE LOUVRE DES MARIONNETTES. UNE ÉCLIPSE CONJUGALE. LES AMOURS D'UN PANTIN ET D'UNE ÉTOILE. UNE APRÈS-MIDI AU JARDIN DES PLANTES. LA MORT D'UNE IMMORTELLE. Les mystères de l'infini.
List of plates
- Combat de deux raffinés[3]
- Interplanetary bridge[4]
- La fosse aux doublivores[5]
- Plusieurs dilettanti ont les oreilles dechirees[6]
- Apocalypse du ballet [7]
- Vénus a l'opera
