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Mynona's other 1921 collection of grotesques is no less provocative and just as indefinable in nature--even close to a century after its original publication. These twelve off-kilter parabolic tales include items such as -The Chamber Pot as Lifesaver, - -The Art of Self-Embalming, - -The Maiden as Toothpowder, - -Your Panties Are Beautiful - and -The Amorous Corpse.- E.T.A. Hoffmann meets Immanuel Kant through the unlikeliest of looking glasses as Mynona spins out quasi-mystical meetings between cosmic entities and drawing-room romantics: a starry-eyed Buster Keaton skirting along the...

Originally published in 1921, The Unruly Bridal Bed brings together ten indefinable tales that include -Tobias and the Prune, - -Plant Paternity, - -The Dissolute Nose, - -Fried Sphinx Meat- and -The Great Gold-Plated Flea.- Under his literary pseudonym Mynona (a palindrome for the German -Anonym, - or -Anonymous-), Salomo Friedlaender here displays his unique brand of philosophical slapstick that blends fairytale technology with proto-metafiction and at times unsettling meditations on fornicating plants, aristocratic eugenics, spiritual and physical hermaphroditism, and our...

Billed by its author--the pseudonymous Mynona (German for -anonymous- backward)--as -the most profound magical experiment since Nostradamus, - The Creator tells the tale of Gumprecht Weiss, an intellectual who has withdrawn from a life of libertinage to pursue his solitary philosophical ruminations. At first dreaming and then actually encountering an enticing young woman named Elvira, Weiss discovers that she has escaped the clutches of her uncle, the Baron, who has been using her as a guinea pig in his metaphysical experiments. But the Baron catches up with them and persuades...