The Trumpets of Jericho by Unica Z?rn (English) Paperback Book

Description: The Trumpets of Jericho by Unica ZÜrn, Christina Svendsen Translation of a novela, Die Trompeten von Jericho, which originally appeared in Gesamtausgabe Bd. 4.2, pages 331-381 (Brinkman & Bose, Berlin, 1998). FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 ZÜrns 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. Review Her most sophisticated and novelistic anagrammatic work.. -- Nathalie Haddad * The Paris Review *These are turns of phrase that want to be read aloud, that ask to be held by the tongue and thrown against the teeth. As utterances, they might resound like the Bibles trumpets of Jericho, felling impenetrable walls and bringing new meaning into the violent breach. -- Annie Godfrey Larmon * Artforum *The variety of images in ZÜrns writing is astounding, but her drawings are strict black lines: abstract amorphous beings like teratomas with human or animal characteristics. ZÜrns drawings were billed as "automatic" work from the depths of the unconscious and, like her writing, the series of seemingly unrelated scenes and fantasies in Trumpets above all convey movement. The book plays with the contrast between chance and pattern. -- Joanna Walsh * The National * Long Description This fierce fable of childbirth by German Surrealist Unica Z Review Quote The variety of images in Zrns writing is astounding, but her drawings are strict black lines: abstract amorphous beings like teratomas with human or animal characteristics. Zrns drawings were billed as "automatic" work from the depths of the unconscious and, like her writing, the series of seemingly unrelated scenes and fantasies in Trumpets above all convey movement. The book plays with the contrast between chance and pattern. Details ISBN1939663091 Short Title TRUMPETS OF JERICHO Publisher Wakefield Press Language English ISBN-10 1939663091 ISBN-13 9781939663092 Media Book Format Paperback Residence US Birth 1916 Death 1970 DEWEY 833.9 Year 2015 Imprint Wakefield Press Place of Publication Cambridge Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2015-06-23 NZ Release Date 2015-06-23 UK Release Date 2015-06-23 Audience General Author Christina Svendsen Pages 55 Translator Christina Svendsen Publication Date 2015-08-06 US Release Date 2015-08-06 Illustrations 3 Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:94510780;

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