{"product_id":"in-a-sound-world-9781907222801","title":"In a Sound World","description":"\u003cb\u003eWorks by the polymathic French author Victor Segalen, including a previously untranslated essay, a novel, and a libretto.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eVictor 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\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\"Synesthestics and the Symbolist School\" and his novel \u003ci\u003eIn A Sound World\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eOrpheus Rex, \u003c\/i\u003ea 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Strange Attractor Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/05\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781907222801\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200","brand":"Victor Segalen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40942073086133,"sku":"9781907222801","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_b39791a0-bc82-458c-9ba2-34d2fddc08a9.jpg?v=1630995606","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/in-a-sound-world-9781907222801","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}