We are grateful to a DP correspondent for steering us to a beautifully conceived essay, hidden within the vast archives of the Public Domain Journal. and written by distinguished professor Kenneth Gross, whose most recent book, Dangerous Children: On Seven Novels and a Story, will be published this autumn.
Excerpts below, with images from the Zentrum Paul Klee in Bern.

THE OLD MAN, THE DEVIL WITH RINGED GLOVE AND THE MONK

THE PHILISTINE, MATCHBOX SPIRT AND THE CROWNED POET

BIG-EARED CLOWN, SELF-PORTRAIT AND THE WHITE-HAIRED ESKIMO

GHOST OF A SCARECROW, ELECTRICAL SPOOK AND MR. DEATH
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