Mafarka Le Futuriste

Excerpt from Mafarka le Futuriste: Roman Africain Six mille negres et quatre mille negresses. Mais ce n'est pas tout... car voici une deuxieme colonne qui s'avance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

"Dazzling and disturbing, Marinetti's 'great fire-brand novel' recounts the erotic and exotic exploits of the warlord Mafarka in a torrid and highly stylised North Africa. When the novel was first published (the French version in 1909, the Italian in 1910), it was banned for obscenity."--cover.

« Une automobile rugissante, qui a l'air de courir sur de la mitraille, est plus belle que la Victoire de Samothrace. » La provocation de Filippo Tommaso Marinetti (1876-1944), lancée en 1909 dans le « Premier Manifeste futuriste », résume, de manière lyrique et violente, les contradictions de la modernité technique. Chef de file des futuristes, il déclare la guerre au passéisme et à la tradition. « Tuer le clair de lune » , sentimental et nostalgique : voilà le programme qu'il s'assigne. Il faut aller de l'avant, toujours plus vite, toujours plus loin, toujours plus haut, mais où ? Le futurisme incarne parfaitement cette morale prométhéenne de la vitesse qui est celle de notre temps.

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