Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Scheerbart, The Unknowable 8
4. The Crystal Vision of Paul Scheerbart: A Brief Biography 11
5. I. GLASS ARCHITECTURE
6. Glass Architecture, 1914 20
7. Glass Houses: Bruno Taut’s Glass Palace at the Cologne Werkbund Exhibition, 1914. 92
8. Glass House: Cologne Werkbund Exhibition, 1914 98
9. “Kaleidoscope-Architecture”: Scheerbart, Taut, and the Glass House 111
10. Glass Architecture, 1921 118
11. Fragments of Utopia: Paul Scheerbart and Bruno Taut 123
12. Glass House Letters, 1920 130
13. Untimely Meditations and Other Modernisms: On the Glass-Dream Visions of Bruno Taut and Paul Scheerbart 145
14. II. LOVE (AND OTHER FICTIONS)
15. A Strange Bird: Paul Scheerbart, or The Eccentricities of a Nightingale 155
16. Selected Short Stories, 1897–1912 163
17. III. A DREAM OF PERPETUAL MOTION
18. Perpetual Motion: The Story of an Invention, 1910 206
19. Perpetual Motion: A Summary, 1910 254
20. The Invention: A Cinematic Tale 257
21. IV. DEATH AND BEYOND
22. Scheerbart’s Fiftieth Birthday Party: An Interview with Egidio Marzona 263
23. On the Birth, Death and Rebirth of Dionysus: A Memorial Wreath for Paul Scheerbart’s Grave, 1919 267
24. A Letter from Bruno Taut to His Brother Max, 1915 272
25. “. . . variants of the seemingly imperfect . . .”: Thoughts on Paul Scheerbart and Walter Benjamin 275
26. The Gallery of the Beyond, 1907 280
27. V. A LIFE IN TITLES
28. Novels and Novelettes, Rhetorical Essays, and Prophetic Howls: A Bibliographic Poem 299
29. Credits 318
30. Acknowledgments 319