fantast

Later on, she begins her discussion of Ball's experimental novel Tenderenda der Phantast (written 1914-20; first published 1967) with a long-winded attempt to reconstruct a story line.

She devotes separate chapters to the early poetry, to Ball's pre-war Expressionism, to the protest poetry he wrote during the First World War, to his Dada performances, to his novel Tendendera der Phantast, and to his autobiographical notebook Die Flucht aus der Zeit.