Dithyramben

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Dithyramben

by Yvan Goll

DE·~38 minutes·1 chapter

Chapters

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DITHYRAMBEN

38:10

Description

In a fever‑dream of a city where streetlights blaze like comet tails and an immense, gothic organ towers over every square, the sound of humanity itself becomes a symphony of hunger, grief and clamor. The narrative swirls through bustling markets, crumbling hotels and factories that cough out their own lament, painting a landscape where the ordinary and the divine collide in a relentless, noisy chorus.

Amid this cacophony, a charismatic student rises from dim boarding houses, his eyes black holes that pierce the gray mask of daily life. He meets a flamboyant cinema director who promises a paradise for a single coin, a place where reality and illusion blur on a silver screen. Together they rally the downtrodden—workers, poets, rebels—each seeking meaning in a world that oscillates between absurd spectacle and desperate yearning.

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Language

de

Duration

~38 minutes (36K characters)

Series

Bücherei "Der Jüngste Tag". Bd. 54

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Credits

Produced by Jens Sadowski

Release date

2014-09-19

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Yvan Goll

Yvan Goll

1891–1950

A bilingual poet who moved between French and German literary worlds, he brought together expressionist intensity, surrealist experimentation, and a life shaped by exile and war.

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