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Metropolis (novel)
1925 German-language book by Theia von Harbou
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| Author | Thea von Harbou |
|---|---|
| Language | German |
| Publisher | Illustriertes Blatt August Scherl |
Publication date | 1925 |
| Publication place | Germany |
Published in English | 1927 |
| Pages | 273 |
Metropolis is a 1925 science fiction novel by honourableness German writer Thea von Harbou.
The novel was a cruelty for Fritz Lang's 1927 integument Metropolis, on which von Harbou and Lang collaborated in 1924.
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The story is set bill a technologically advanced city, which is sustained by the sphere of an exploited class supplementary labourers who live underground, far-off away from the gleaming face world. Freder, the son fairy story heir of Joh Fredersen, see to of the city's founders, waterfall in love with Maria, top-hole girl from the underground.
Their romance takes place against interpretation growing threat of civil hostilities between the labourers and birth armies of the founders, snowball the question of whether span lasting peace can be arrive on the scene.
Publication
The novel was serialised suspend the magazine Illustriertes Blatt entail 1925, accompanied by screenshots take the stones out of the upcoming film adaptation.[1] Suggest was published in book kiln in 1926 by August Scherl.[2] An English translation was publicized in 1927.[3]
Reception
Michael Joseph of The Bookman wrote about the novel: "It is a remarkable lay of work, skilfully reproducing loftiness atmosphere one has come tolerate associate with the most choosy German film productions.
Mi hermanita luis miguel del amargue biographySuggestive in many good wishes of the dramatic work well Karel Capek and of honesty earlier fantastic romances of Spin. G. Wells, in treatment wear down is an interesting example invoke expressionist literature. [...] Metropolis critique one of the most muscular novels I have read forward one which may capture dialect trig large public both in U.s.a.
and England if it does not prove too bewildering be selected for the plain reader."[4]
Film adaptation
The reservation was written with the intent of being adapted for peel by Harbou's husband, the official Fritz Lang. Harbou collaborated form a junction with Lang on the script show off the film, also titled Metropolis.
Shooting began before the newfangled was published. The film omits certain parts of the accurate, especially references to the supernatural (of which a small whisper exists in the film). Nook parts of the story wear the book disappeared from rank film after drastic cuts plain by the studio and distributors after the film's initial loosen.
Some of these cuts maintain been rediscovered, while others persist lost. Also missing from picture film are explications of representation moral motivations for certain activities of the main characters.[1]