Dark Spring

Dark Spring
Title Dark Spring PDF eBook
Author Unica Zürn
Publisher
Pages 136
Release 2000
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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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.

The Man of Jasmine

The Man of Jasmine
Title The Man of Jasmine PDF eBook
Author Unica Zürn
Publisher Serpent's Tail
Pages 210
Release 1994
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN

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Zurn's mental collapse was initiated when she encountered in the real world her childhood fantasy figure "the man of jasmine": he was the writer Henri Michaux, and her meeting him plunged her into a world of hallucination in which visions of her desires, anxieties and events from her unresolved past overwhelmed her present life. Her return to "reality" was constantly interrupted by alternate visionary and depressive periods.

The Trumpets of Jericho

The Trumpets of Jericho
Title The Trumpets of Jericho PDF eBook
Author Unica Zürn
Publisher
Pages 0
Release 2015
Genre Childbirth
ISBN 9781939663092

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This fierce fable of childbirth by German Surrealist Unica Zürn was written after she had already given birth to two children and undergone the self-induced abortion of another in Berlin in the 1950s. Beginning in the relatively straightforward, if disturbing, narrative of a young woman in a tower (with a bat in her hair and ravens for company) engaged in a psychic war with the parasitic son in her belly, The Trumpets of Jericho dissolves into a beautiful nightmare of hypnotic obsession and mythical language, stitched together with anagrams and private ruminations. Arguably Zürn's most extreme experiment in prose, and never before translated into English, this novella dramatizes the frontiers of the body--its defensive walls as well as its cavities and thresholds--animating a harrowing and painfully, twistedly honest depiction of motherhood as a breakdown in the distinction between self and other, transposed into the language of darkest fairy tales. Unica Zürn (1916-70) was born in Grünewald, Germany. Toward the end of World War II, she discovered the realities of the Nazi concentration camps--a revelation which was to haunt and unsettle her for the rest of her life. After meeting Hans Bellmer in 1953, she followed him to Paris, where she became acquainted with the Surrealists and developed the body of drawings and writings for which she is best remembered: a series of anagram poems, hallucinatory accounts and literary enactments of the mental breakdowns from which she would suffer until her suicide in 1970.

The House of Illnesses

The House of Illnesses
Title The House of Illnesses PDF eBook
Author Unica Zürn
Publisher Serpent's Tail
Pages 68
Release 1993
Genre Fiction
ISBN

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A remarkable illustrated text produced by the,author during one of her stays in a mental,institution.,.

Unica Zürn

Unica Zürn
Title Unica Zürn PDF eBook
Author Esra Plumer
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages 273
Release 2022-06-30
Genre Art
ISBN 1350296953

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Diagnosed with schizophrenia in the 1950s, writer and artist Unica Zürn produced a wealth of remarkable textual and visual material while in psychiatric institutions across Germany and France. While Zürn is often discussed in relation to her partner, the controversial artist Hans Bellmer, this innovative book moves beyond the familiar model of the overlooked 'woman behind the man' and re-introduces her as a member of the French Surrealist group. In the first text on Unica Zürn in English, Esra Plumer presents Zürn's life and work in light of the artist's individual experiences of the Second World War, post-war Surrealism and mental illness, at the same time revealing wider aspects of her artistic practice in relation to her contemporaries. Plumer also reveals how the techniques of anagrams and automatism (writing and drawing methods designed to unlock the subconscious mind) form the pillars of Zürn's artistic creative output, which carry her work into the wider theoretical circles of psychoanalytic theory and post-structuralist thought.

Unica Zürn

Unica Zürn
Title Unica Zürn PDF eBook
Author Unica Zürn
Publisher
Pages 93
Release 2009
Genre
ISBN 9780942324396

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Magnifying Mirrors

Magnifying Mirrors
Title Magnifying Mirrors PDF eBook
Author Renäe Riese Hubert
Publisher U of Nebraska Press
Pages 772
Release 1994-01-01
Genre Literary Criticism
ISBN 9780803223707

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Mit Bezügen zu Meret Oppenheim.