Metropolis, Thea Von Harbou
Metropolis, Thea Von Harbou
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Metropolis

Author: Thea Von Harbou

Narrator: Rupert Degas

Unabridged: 8 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/04/2023

Synopsis

This book is not of today or of the future. It tells of no place. It serves no cause, party or class. It has a moral which grows on the pillar of understanding: The mediator between brain and muscle must be the Heart. — Thea von Harbou, in the novel's original epigraph Originally published in German in 1925, this expressionist epic tells a story about class difference and love in a city that boasts technological growth at the expense of exploited laborers, contending with the relationship between advances in technology and social progress. Written in tandem with the 1927 science-fiction film of the same name, which was directed by Thea von Harbou's husband Fritz Lang, the story, through both the novel and the film, has inspired and influenced countless works of art, creating a legacy that extends across the science-fiction genre and beyond it.

About Rupert Degas

Rupert Degas is a multi-award-winning audiobook narrator with more than 300 titles to his credit. His extensive catalog showcases his remarkable ability to bring different characters to life. In 2022, he was inducted as a Golden Voice, AudioFile Magazine's lifetime-achievement honor. His voiceover and acting experience also includes advertising, animation, commercials, promos, documentaries, audio dramas, cartoons, film, TV, and corporate content.

About Thea Von Harbou

Thea von Harbou (1888–1954) was a German screenwriter, novelist, film director, and actress. Born in Bavaria, she began her career in the arts as an actress then later shifted her focus to writing fiction. Following a collaboration with German director Joe May, she began to work with Fritz Lang, whom she married. Together, they worked on several films, many of which were adaptations of her short fiction and novels, including the seminal science-fiction film Metropolis.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Dfordoom on September 24, 2011

Thea von Harbou is best known today as the wife of the great film director Fritz Lang and his close collaborator on most of his early German masterpieces. She not only co-wrote the scripts, she also turned several of them into novels, including perhaps the most famous of all, Metropolis. She had in f......more

Goodreads review by John Dishwasher John Dishwasher on November 21, 2020

A very ambitious and enigmatic novel treating the redemption of a society. Von Harbou creates a world which is ‘perfect’ and ‘flawless’ superficially, but which is built upon exploitation and cruelty. For the privileged the society is as hedonistic as Sodom. For the workers and masses it is a crushi......more

Goodreads review by Maria on February 07, 2012

Absolutely loved the book as much as I loved the movie. The language is a bit strange though, there are no dialogues and the atmosphere is stifling at times due to an overdose of exalted phrases. The characters are bombastic, everything they say or do is filled with great passion adjacent to madness......more

Goodreads review by Liam O'Leary on March 20, 2022

A source text for The Burnt City by Punchdrunk Not recommended. This is a novelisation of a screenplay, not a novel, so it is written awkwardly. Also, the same author made the screenplay for the famous film but it is very different, making me wonder why there is a difference. Only interesting from se......more

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