{"product_id":"misty-thule-9781943813704","title":"Misty Thule","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdolphe Rett 's \u003cem\u003eMisty Thule\u003c\/em\u003e, originally published in 1891 and here translated into English for the first time by Brian Stable-ford, is one of the key documents of the Symbolist Movement, and one of the most extreme illustrations of its philosophy. Deliberately breaking the usually-imposed boundaries of poetry and prose, sensation and fantasy, stories and chapters, syntax and punctuation, it can be seen at once as a collection in the tradition of Charles Baudelaire's unfinished \u003cem\u003eSpleen de Paris\u003c\/em\u003e, an \u003cem\u003eavant-garde\u003c\/em\u003e novel, and a work of Surrealism \u003cem\u003eavant la lettre\u003c\/em\u003e, reaching toward an immediacy of raw representation that attempts to gag the censor of rationalization and liberate the anarchic thrust of the unconscious as a hidden participant in the processes of perception and mental response.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlthough Rett  repudiated the book in later life, on religious grounds, \u003cem\u003eMisty Thule \u003c\/em\u003eremains the most remarkable work that he produced--and, indeed, one of the most remarkable that anyone produced under the aegis of Symbolism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Snuggly Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50857282699538,"sku":"9781943813704","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c5121093-e173-432f-a031-a8a571882202.jpg?v=1737526703","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/misty-thule-9781943813704","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}