
Dark Spring
Unica Zurn(Author)
Exact Change,U.S. (Publisher)
Published on 13. November 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
115 pages
978-1-878972-30-9 (ISBN)
Description
An autobiographical novel that reads more like an exorcism than a novel. In terse and lucid prose, Zurn traces the roots to her obsessions: the exotic father whom she idolized, the impure mother she detested, the masochistic fantasies and onanistic rituals which she said described 'the erotic life of a little girl based on my own childhood.' Dark Spring is the story of a girls's simultaneous initiation to sexuality and madness, revealing a dark side of the 'mad love' so championed and romanticized by the (predominantly male) Surrealists.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bostone
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 11 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-878972-30-9 (9781878972309)
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Person
Unica Zurn (1916-70) suffered thirteen years of mental illness before throwing herself from her apartment window - an act foretold in this, her last work. Born in Germany, Zurn moved in mid-life to Paris, where she lived with the artist Hans Bellmer (she was his model as well as lover), and where she moved in the Surrealist circles of Hans Arp, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray. Caroline Rupprecht is Professor of Comparative Literature at Queens College, New York.