He attacked "things old and worm-eaten" in his gastronomic satire King Revel, and dedicated his collection The Conquest of the Stars to his friend Gustav Kahn. While in Alexandria, he founded the literary magazine Le Papyrus. He wrote a novel banned for obscenity about a brutal warlord named Mafarka
He attacked "things old and worm-eaten" in his gastronomic satire King Revel, and dedicated his collection The Conquest of the Stars to his friend Gustav Kahn. While in Alexandria, he founded the literary magazine Le Papyrus. He wrote a novel banned for obscenity about a brutal warlord named Mafarka, who constructs a mechanical son. This author advocated for absolute novelty in The Theater of Surprises and The Theatre of Essential Brevity, and suggested that Christian morality has no purpose in The New Ethical Religion of Speed. In a founding text of the movement he is most associated with, he claims that a "race-automobile which seems to rush over exploding powder is more beautiful than the Victory of Samothrace." For 10 points, name this Egyptian-born Italian author of the Futurist Manifesto.
He attacked "things old and worm-eaten" in his gastronomic satire King Revel, and dedicated his collection The Conquest of the Stars to his friend Gustav Kahn.
{Filippo Tommaso Marinetti}