{"id":1990,"date":"2016-01-19T21:11:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T21:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2016-01-31T03:51:08","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T03:51:08","slug":"robert-stark-interviews-ann-sterzinger-about-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/?p=1990","title":{"rendered":"Robert Stark interviews Ann Sterzinger about In the Sky"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In the Sky(Dans le ciel<\/a>) was written by\u00a0Octave Mirbeau<\/a>\u00a0in France in the 1890’s. Ann Sterzinger translated the first English edition published by Hopeless Books. It’s available on Amazon<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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How Ann discovered the book from\u00a0Pierre Michel<\/a>,\u00a0a French literary\u00a0scholar specializing in the writer Octave Mirbeau<\/a>
\nHow Mirbeau is best known for his book\u00a0Diary of a chambermaid<\/i> but In the Sky was little known outside of France
\nHow Mirbeau was an anarchist and a\u00a0Dreyfusard<\/a>
\nHow Mirbeau was a major influence on\u00a0Louis-Ferdinand C\u00e9line<\/a>\u00a0who shared his misanthropic outlook<\/a>
\nHow\u00a0C\u00e9line<\/a>\u00a0was marginalized for his support of the Vichy Regime however he influenced many writers such as Jack Kerouac, John Dolan, Charles Bukowski, and\u00a0Michel Houellebecq
\nHow the book reflects\u00a0Mirbeau’s outlook towards life and society
\nThe main character X who is a depressed, misanthropic, artist based on Vincent Van Gogh who Mirbeau knew
\nThe Narrator who discovers X’s manifesto after his death
\nHow X struggles to create his artistic vision
\nX’s mentor who looses his mind
\nThe post Catholic concept of expressing spirituality through art
\nHow X struggles with sexual and romantic frustration and when he finally meets\u00a0a girl he dumps her because she did not live up to his romantic ideals
\nHow the of\u00a0meaning of the title\u00a0In the Sky and both where X lives on top of a mountain where you can only see sky and \u00a0metaphor for being detached from society
\nMirbeau’s view on the family and how neurosis is pasted down from parents to children
\nHow the book combines tragedy and comedy
\nMatt Forney’s review\u00a0Elliot Rodger Goes to Paris<\/a>
\nThe genre “Loser Lit”
\nAnn’s article Dead David Bowie, French Nationalists, Antinatalism, and the Meaning of Life<\/a>
\nDavid Bowie’s art & legacy
\nHer article The Magical Bottomless Labor Pool<\/a> which connects political themes to her book\u00a0NVSQVAM<\/a>
\nWhy I\u2019m Scared of Widows &<\/i> Orphans<\/a>
\nApplied Dysgenics<\/a>
\nIn Defense of Beta Females<\/a>
\nAnn’s upcoming Science Fiction Dystopia novel\u00a0Lyfe,\u00a0which needs a publisher that specializes in Science Fiction<\/p>\n

https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Ann-Sterzinger-In-the-Sky.mp3<\/a><\/audio>
\nClick Here<\/a> to download!<\/p>\n

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                          In the Sky(Dans le ciel) was written by Octave Mirbeau in France in the 1890’s. Ann Sterzinger translated the first English edition published by Hopeless Books. It’s available on Amazon. Topics include: How Ann discovered the book from Pierre Michel, a French literary scholar specializing in the … Continue reading Robert Stark interviews Ann Sterzinger about In the Sky<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,56,377,457,362,459,614,417,197,422,334,3,616,116,380,557,114,535,615,603,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-80s-music","category-ann-sterzinger","category-anti-natalism","category-art","category-basic-income","category-culture","category-david-bowie","category-despair","category-france","category-gender","category-humor","category-immigration","category-in-the-sky","category-literature","category-loserdom","category-louis-ferdinand-celine","category-michel-houellebecq","category-misanthropy","category-octave-mirbeau","category-science-fiction","category-sexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1990"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2019,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1990\/revisions\/2019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starktruthradio.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}