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 Subconcious, Or As Kubin Himself Called It, ''a Sort Of Baedeker For Those Lands Which Are Half Known To Us''.written In 1908, And More Or Less Half Way Between Meyrink And Kafka, It Was Greeted With Wild Enthusiasm By The Artists And Writers Of The Expressionist Generation. '' Expressionist Illustrator Kubin Wrote This Fascinating Curio, His Only Literary Work In 1908. A Town Named Pearl, Assembled And Presided Over By The Aptly Named Patera, Is The Setting For His Hallucinatory Vision Of A Society Founded On Instinct Over Reason.