Metropolis Audiobook Libro.fm

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 novels 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 sciencefiction film of the same name which was directed by Thea von Harbous 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 sciencefiction genre and beyond it