Alfred Kubin: The Other Side (1908-) [Spanish, English, Italian]

“Alfred Kubin (1877-1959) was one of the major graphic artists of the 20th century who was widely known for his illustrations of writers of the fantastic such as Balzac, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Gustav Meyrink and Edgar Allan Poe. In his combination of the darkly decadent, the fantastic and the grotesque, in his evocations of dream and nightmare, his creation of an atmosphere of mystery and fear he resembles Mervyn Peake.

The Other Side tells of a dream kingdom which becomes a nightmare, of a journey to Pearl, a mysterious city created deep in Asia, which is also a journey to the depths of the subconscious. Or as Kubin himself called it, ‘a sort of Baedeker for those lands which are half known to us’.” (from book jacket)

Originally published in German as Die andere Seite, Christa Spangenberg, Munich, 1908

English edition
Translated by Mike Mitchell
Publisher Dedalus, UK, 2000
Dedalus European Classics series
ISBN 1873982690
249 pages

publisher (EN)
Kubin at Wikipedia

La otra parte (Spanish, trans. Juan Jose del Solar, 1988)
The Other Side (English, trans. Mike Mitchell, 2000)
L’altra parte (Italian, trans. Lia Secci, 2nd edition, 2000/2012)