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Dark Spring
Overview
This dark, autobiographical coming-of-age novel reads more like an exorcism than a memoir
In Dark Spring, author Unica Zürn traces the roots of her obsessions: The exotic father she idealized, 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 young girl's simultaneous introduction to sexuality and mental illness, revealing a different aspect of the "mad love" so romanticized by the (predominantly male) Surrealists.
Unica Zürn (1916-70) emigrated in 1953 from her native Berlin to Paris in order to live with the artist Hans Bellmer. There she exhibited drawings as a member of the Surrealist group and collaborated with Bellmer on a series of notorious photographs of her nude torso bound with string. In 1957, a fateful encounter with the poet and painter Henri Michaux led to the first of what would become a series of mental crises, some of which she documented in her writings. She committed suicide in 1970--an act foretold in this, her last completed work.Customers Also Bought
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781878972309
- ISBN-10: 1878972308
- Publisher: Exact Change
- Publish Date: October 2008
- Dimensions: 8 x 5.99 x 0.42 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.4 pounds
- Page Count: 128
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