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Artist:	ZURN, UNICA
Title:	Dark Spring
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	EC ZURN

"Unica Zürn (1916-1970) was born in Berlin and made her living there as a film dramaturge and short story write until 1953, when she met the artist Hans Bellmer and moved with him to Paris.Dark Spring is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel that reads more like an exorcism than a memoir. In it, author Unica Zürn traces the roots to 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."

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