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Essays on Dolls

by Heinrich von Kleist, Rainer Maria Rilke, Charles Baudelaire · 1810

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This tryptich of classic texts on dolls, puppets and marionettes are written by three of the most original theorists of toys and their anthropology, all of whom were personally haunted by the idea of lifelessness.

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