{"product_id":"the-pig","title":"The Pig","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Pig\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eErik Panizza, Oskar; Butler\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781939663153\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eWakefield Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2016\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e120\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"For dry humor from a decadent nihilist, it can't be beat.\" -M. Kasper, \u003ci\u003e Rain Taxi\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"The Pig is the Sun....\"\u003c\/i\u003e So begins Oskar Panizza's outrageously heretical and massively erudite essay on the pig, originally published in 1900 in his journal \u003ci\u003eZurich Discussions\u003c\/i\u003e. Moving from the Rig Veda to the Edda to Ovid, from the story of Tristan and Isolde to Nordic celebrations of Christmas, from Grimms' fairytales to Swedish folklore to Judeo-Egyptian dietary restrictions, the author contends, through painstakingly philological argumentation, that the miraculous swine occupies a central, celestial position as the life-giving force animating the entire universe, usurping the place of God as the beginning and end of all things. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eOskar Panizza\u003c\/b\u003e (1853-1921) was a German psychiatrist turned avant-garde author. In 1894 he published his notorious play \u003ci\u003eThe Love Council\u003c\/i\u003e: \"A Heavenly Tragedy in Five Acts\" that depicted the spread of syphilis among humanity in 1492 through a senile god, an idiot Christ, a promiscuous Mary and a depraved Pope Alexander VI. Charged with 93 counts of blasphemy, Panizza found his instantaneous literary fame accompanied by a 12-month prison sentence. Moving to Zurich, he published a journal, \u003ci\u003eZurich Discussions\u003c\/i\u003e, the majority of which he wrote himself under a series of pen names. After being expelled from Switzerland, he relocated to Paris until his 1899 publication of anti-Germanic verse led to his finances being seized. He spent the last 16 years of his life in a Bavarian mental institution.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Wakefield Press","offers":[{"title":"The Pig | Erik Panizza, Oskar; Butler | Paperback | 9781939663153 | New | Religion \u0026 Spirituality 1605922","offer_id":48163752476824,"sku":"1605922","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/61m5oEVjiOL.jpg?v=1771890789","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/the-pig","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}