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IN A SOUND WORLD - VICTOR SEGALEN TASCHENBUCH

Works by the polymathic French author Victor Segalen  including a previously untranslated essay
a novel  and a libretto. Victor Segalen (1878-1919) had one of France's most curious literary
careers  applying his imagination to musicology  ethnography  exploration  medicine 
synesthetics  Chinese history  and the occult. This collection gathers together his previously
untranslated essay Synesthestics and the Symbolist School” and his novel In A Sound World  a
work of fantasy concerning an inventor lost in his own immersive harmonic space. Segalen's
medical training (he had a career as a ship's doctor) inspired an interest in the link between
the prevailing Symbolism of the time and synesthesia  the condition whereby one sense affects
the perception of another. This edition also includes an essay by the musician and cultural
historian David Toop that explores the historical context of Segalen's ideas. Also included is
Segalen's libretto for Orpheus Rex  a collaboration with the composer Claude Debussy  which he
would use as an opportunity for further explorations of his synesthetic concepts. This book
makes available all three texts for the first time in English.

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