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A stunning work of memoir and an unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by one of Surrealism's most compelling figures

In 1937 Leonora Carrington—later to become one of the twentieth century’s great painters of the weird, the alarming, and the wild—was a nineteen-year-old art student in London, beautiful and unapologetically rebellious. At a dinner party, she met the artist Max Ernst. The two fell in love and soon departed to live and paint together in a farmhouse in Provence.

In 1940, the invading German army arrested Ernst and sent him to a concentration camp. Carrington suffered a psychotic break. She wept for hours. Her stomach became “the mirror of the earth”—of all worlds in a hostile universe—and she tried to purify the evil by compulsively vomiting. As the Germans neared the south of France, a friend persuaded Carrington to flee to Spain. Facing the approach “of robots, of thoughtless, fleshless beings,” she packed a suitcase that bore on a brass plate the word Revelation.

This was only the beginning of a journey into madness that was to end with Carrington confined in a mental institution, overwhelmed not only by her own terrible imaginings but by her doctor’s sadistic course of treatment. In Down Below she describes her ordeal—in which the agonizing and the marvelous were equally combined—with a startling, almost impersonal precision and without a trace of self-pity. Like Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Down Below brings the hallucinatory logic of madness home.



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Product specificaties:

Taal: en

Bindwijze: Paperback

Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 18 april 2017

Aantal pagina's: 69

Illustraties: Nee

Hoofdauteur: Leonora Carrington

Tweede Auteur: Marina Warner

Hoofduitgeverij: New York Review Of Books

Editie: Main

Extra groot lettertype: Nee

Product breedte: 130 mm

Product hoogte: 8 mm

Product lengte: 203 mm

Studieboek: Nee

Verpakking breedte: 127 mm

Verpakking hoogte: 11 mm

Verpakking lengte: 198 mm

Verpakkingsgewicht: 230 g

EAN: 9781681370606