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Surreal Pinscreen Animations Bring Kafka, Gogol & Mussorgsky to Life (1933–1972)

Open Culture 29 October 2026 5d ago
Surreal Pinscreen Animations Bring Kafka, Gogol & Mussorgsky to Life (1933–1972)
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What do Franz Kafka, Nikolai Gogol, and Modest Mussorgsky have in common? They stand alone among their peers for their darkly humorous sensibilities, fascination with the grotesque, imaginative takes on cultural traditions, and a predisposition for the proto-surreal. Like the odd figure lurching through the first movement of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, they are […]
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