This program introduces the life and work of a true literary giant, and shows how he transformed the traumas of his life into fictional masterworks. It shows the gloomy, pseudoclassical, stiff, and slightly effete 19th-century world of this 20th-century prophet, and traces in his words his startling premonitions about the future. Narrated by Kurt Vonnegut. (15 minutes, b&w)

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