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Artist:	APOLLINAIRE, GUILLAUME
Title:	The Poet Assassinated
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	EC APOLLIN2

"The poet Guillaume Apollinaire was modernism's first champion, and after his early death in 1918, he became its first saint. In 1916, while recovering from a head wound received in World War I, he published The Poet Assassinated, his most famous work of prose; a roman à clef mythologizing himself as well as friends and enemies including Pablo Picasso, Marie Laurencin, Jean Cocteau, Max Jacob, and others from the legendary 'banquet years' of pre-war Paris. With wit, erudition, and venom, Apollinaire concocts a Rabelaisian parallel universe, and slyly tells his own life story, from illegitimate birth to literary fame, in the process. The novella recounts the life and death of Croniamantal, whose birth is 'saluted' by the Eiffel Tower's 'beautiful erection,' who rises through the Parisian literary world to proclaim himself 'the greatest of living poets,' and who is promptly torn to pieces by a mob. This translation is by Matthew Josephson, an American who arrived in Paris in 1921 and entered the circle of avant-garde artists and poets galvanized by Apollinaire. Published in 1923 and never before reprinted, Josephson's translation is itself a fascinating artifact of the period, its tone an echo of the way Apollinaire must have sounded to his contemporaries."

Artist:	ARAGON, LOUIS
Title:	Paris Peasant
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	EC ARAGON

"One of the central works of Surrealism, Paris Peasant is part fiction, part memoir, and part treatise. A work that helps define the movement itself; yet this is the first U.S. publication of Simon Watson Taylor's authoritative translation, completed after consultations with the author. Unconventional in form ? Aragon self-consciously avoided any recognizable narration or character development ? but fiercely lyrical, Paris Peasant is, in the author's words, 'a mythology of the modern.' The book uses the city of Paris as a framework, and Aragon interlaces his text with the city's ephemera: café menus, maps, inscriptions on monuments, newspaper clippings, as well as the lives of its citizens. A detailed description of a Parisian passage, nineteenth-century precursor to the mini-mall, and another of the Buttes-Chaumont park, are the great set pieces within Aragon's swirling prose of philosophy, dream, and satire."

Artist:	ARAGON, LOUIS
Title:	The Adventures of Telemachus
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	EC ARAGON2

"This is the first paperback edition in English of one of the most important and entertaining works of Surrealist fiction. Aragon's 1922 novel boldly appropriates the title and plot of a didactic 17th-century epic, recounting the adventures of Odysseus's son Telemachus; but the moralistic underpinnings of the original are replaced by a Surrealist's dedication to the strange, the beautiful, and the erotic. Though a classic of Surrealism, this is not automatic writing; on the contrary, it is a wryly self-conscious book, full of the kinds of intertexual games associated with writers such as Borges and Calvino. As the Huberts comment in their introduction, 'Aragon did not have to liberate his mind through automatic exercises; but by mastering and playing with the narrative...he succeeded in freeing himself from the constraints of mimeticism...descend[ing] into the diabolical nirvana of dada."

Artist:	ARTAUD, ANTONIN
Title:	Watchfiends & Rack Screams
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	EC ARTAUD

"Among Antonin Artaud's most brilliant works are the scatological glossolalia composed in the final three years of his life (1945-1948), during and after his incarceration in an asylum at Rodez. These represent some of the most powerful outpourings ever recorded, a torrent of speech from the other side of sanity and the occult. In this collection, the most complete representation of this period of Artaud's work ever presented in English, and the first new anthology of Artaud published in the U.S. since Helen Weaver's 1976 Selected Writings, cogent statements of theory are paired with the raving poetry of such pieces as 'Artaud the Momo,' 'Here Lies,' and 'To Have Done with the Judgement of God.' These are translated with drama and accuracy by Clayton Eshleman, whose renditions of Vallejo and Césaire have won widespread acclaim including a National Book Award."

Artist:	CARRINGTON, LEONORA
Title:	The Hearing Trumpet
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	EC CARRINGT

Leonora Carrington (born in England, 1917) was a crucial Surrealist figure in the 1930s, while living with Max Ernst. She sent on to become an amazing painter, and has written a handful of fantastical novels; this classic work, The Hearing Trumpet, is the first in a series of reissues of her fiction to be published by Exact Change. One of the most exciting developments in the EC catalog. "The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an institution. But this is an institution where the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, where the Winking Abbess and the Queen Bee reign, and where the gateway to the underworld is open. It is also the scene of a mysterious murder. Occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, The Hearing Trumpet is a classic of fantastic literature that has been translated and celebrated throughout the world."

Artist:	DE CHIRICO, GIORGIO
Title:	Hebdomeros And Other Writings
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	EC CHIRICO

"The artist Giorgio de Chirico's novel Hebdomeros is astonishing dream-like book of situations and landscapes reminiscent of his paintings. In his introduction John Ashbery calls the book 'the finest work of Surrealist fiction,' noting that de Chirico 'invented for the occasion a new style and a new kind of novel -- his long run-on sentences, stitched together with semi-colons, allow a cinematic freedom of narration -- his language, like his painting, is invisible: a transparent but dense medium containing objects that are more real than reality.' Hebdomeros is presented here in an excellent translation from the French that has until now been available only in an obscure limited edition; and it is accompanied by an appendix of previously untranslated or uncollected writings, including M. Dudron's Adventure, a second, fragmentary novel translated by John Ashbery."

Artist:	CORNELL, JOSEPH
Title:	Joesph Cornell's Dreams
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	EC CORNELL

"Edited and with and introduction by Catherine Corman. 143 pp. Paperback. Joseph Cornell (1903-1972) is known for the oneiric quality of his art and films. Some of our greatest poets have worked to describe the strange power of his boxes, toy-like constructions whose playfulness and humor are anchored in a profound melancholy and loneliness. 'Slot machine of visions,' wrote Octavio Paz. Cornell himself is said to have enjoyed children's responses to his work best; perhaps because nothing prepares one for viewing a Cornell box, other than paying attention to one's dreams. Catherine Corman has combed through Cornell's voluminous diaries, now in the care of the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art, in search of the artist's own dreams. What she found are flashes of images and short, enigmatic narratives of illumination -- the verbal equivalent of Cornell boxes. As she writes, 'The dreams are not derived from waking life, but appear as if by chance. Cornell spends the day eating pastries and riding a bicycle. Falling asleep on the couch is like pulling the lever of the slot machine of visions. Images of naiads, lambs, and the ocean appear.'"

Artist:	DALI, SALVADOR
Title:	Oui
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	EC DALI

"His official association with the movement was in fact quite brief -- on arrival in Paris from his native Catalonia in 1929, the young Dalí was determined to join the Surrealists and was indeed eagerly welcomed by them as a new member; but by 1934 André Breton had ousted Dalí from the group in a humiliating public 'trial.' The two would continue sniping at each other well into old age. 'The only difference between me and a Surrealist is that I am a Surrealist,' Dalí famously said. But in 1927-1933 such distinctions were unnecessary -- even Breton admitted, 'For three or four years, Dalí would incarnate the Surrealist spirit and make it shine as brilliantly as ever' . . . Which makes it all the more surprising that Dalí's collected writings from this period have never before been translated into English. The volume Oui was first published in French in 1971, and elicited a reassessment of Dalí, who was by then infamous for his crass gestures toward notoriety and wealth ('Avida Dollars' was Breton's nasty anagram that stuck). Oui is a corrective to that caricature of the late Dalí, the bejeweled seeker of scandal; it presents us instead with the young, brilliant, and perhaps even sincere Dalí that first arrived in Paris to take it by storm. The short fictions, essays, and poems collected here document Dalí's love for his Spanish comrades, Luis Buñuel and Federico Garcia Lorca; his passion for the emerging arts of photography and cinema (including commentary on the landmark film he made with Buñuel, Un Chien Andalou); his Catalan roots and subsequent entry into the cosmopolitan world of the Parisian avant-garde; and key moments in the development of his 'Paranoid-Critical' method, the theoretical basis for Dalí's artwork throughout his life, which would ultimately draw the attention of Sigmund Freud and Jacques Lacan as well as Breton and his colleagues."

Artist:	FELDMAN, MORTON
Title:	Give My Regards To Eighth Street: Collected Writings Of
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	EC FELD

Originally released pre-9/11, finally reprinted in 2007! "What was great about the fifties is that for one brief moment -- maybe, say, six weeks -- nobody understood art. That's why it all happened." -- Feldman. "Morton Feldman (1926-1987) is among the most influential American composers of the 20th century. While his music is known for its extreme quiet and delicate beauty, Feldman himself was famously large and loud. His writings are both funny and illuminating, not only about his own music but about the entire New York School of painters, poets, and composers that coalesced in the 1950s, including his friends Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Mark Rothko, Robert Rauschenberg, Frank O'Hara, and John Cage. Together with John Cage, Feldman is the principal representative of the New York School of composers, a group of American avant-gardists who in the 1950s and 1960s challenged the European music establishment with their use of graphic scores, chance techniques, and indeterminate compositions. Yet despite Feldman's devotion to these radical innovations, his music was known above all for its sensuousness and melancholy. 'There never was and there is not now in my mind any doubt about its beauty,' wrote John Cage in his landmark book Silence. "'t is, in fact, sometimes too beautiful.' It is Feldman's intuitive, almost spiritual approach to music that has caused him to become one of the most performed composers of our time; since his death in 1987, no fewer than 80 CDs of Feldman's music have been released, and his works can now be heard in classical music halls worldwide. His music has also won a large following outside the classical establishment; Feldman is one of the most listened to and discussed composers among fans (and practitioners) of avant-garde rock and techno music. Give My Regards to Eighth Street is an authoritative collection of Feldman's writings, culled from published articles, program notes, LP liners, lectures, interviews, and unpublished writings in the Morton Feldman Archive at SUNY Buffalo (where Feldman taught for many years). Feldman's writings explore his music and his theories about music, but they also make clear how heavily Feldman was influenced by painting and by his friendships with the Abstract Expressionists. As editor B.H. Friedman notes in his introduction, Feldman's 'writing about art is also of lasting importance.'"

Artist:	JARRY, ALFRED
Title:	Exploits And Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	EC JARRY

Reprinted. "Recounts the adventures of the inventor of pataphysics, the 'science of imaginary solutions.' The greatest prose work by the author of Ubu Roi, a novel that can be compared only to Rabelais or Sterne." "Pataphysics...is the science of that which is superinduced upon metaphysics, whether within or beyond the latter's limitations, extending as far beyond metaphysics as the latter extends beyond physics... Pataphysics will be, above all, the science of the particular, despite the common opinion that the only science is that of the general. Pataphysics will examine the laws governing exceptions, and will explain the universe supplementary to this one... Pataphysics is the science of imaginary solutions...Pataphysics is the science... --Jarry

Artist:	JARRY, ALFRED
Title:	The Supermale
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	EC JARRY2

"Alfred Jarry (1873-1907) was the original transgressive author; the first word of his famous play Ubu Roi, 'Shittr!', changed the course of art and drama forever. Jarry's novels are equally outrageous, and the best of them are now again available in English. Where Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician is philosophical, The Supermale is carnal. André Marcueil, gentleman and scientist, has the ability to make love an infinite number of times in succession. Like a mock Jules Verne, Jarry describes the manner in which this Supermale proves his claim; after 82 times with a woman, attending doctors finally hook him up to a machine instead, with whom he merges in the book's -- and the Supermale's -- final climax. Barbara Wright's excellent translation, first published by New Directions, has been long out of print."

Artist:	LAUTREAMONT
Title:	Maldoror And The Complete Works
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	EC LAUT

Reprinted! "André Breton wrote that Maldoror is 'the expression of a revelation so complete it seems to exceed human potential.' Little is known about its pseudonymous author aside from his real name (Isidore Ducasse), birth in Uruguay (1846), and early death in Paris (1870). Lautréamont's writings bewildered his contemporaries but the Surrealists modeled their efforts after his lawless black humor and poetic leaps of logic, exemplified by the oft-quoted slogan, 'As beautiful as the chance meeting on a dissecting-table of a sewing-machine and an umbrella!' Maldoror's shocked first publisher refused to bind the sheets of the original edition -- and perhaps no better invitation exists to this book which warns the reader, 'Only the few may relish this bitter fruit without danger.' This is the only complete annotated collection of Lautréamont's writings available in English, in a superior translation."

Artist:	DE NERVAL, GERARD
Title:	Aurelia And Other Writings
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	EC NERVAL

"An account of Nerval's unrequited passion for an actress and subsequent descent into madness, this book was a favorite of artist Joseph Cornell's, and its author was championed by both Marcel Proust and André Breton. One of the original self-styled 'bohemians,' Nerval was best known in his own day for parading a lobster on a pale blue ribbon through the gardens of the Palais-Royal, and for his suicide in 1855, hanging from an apron string he called the garter of the Queen of Sheba. Geoffrey Wagner's translation of Aurélia was first published by Grove Press in 1959, but has remained out of print for nearly twenty years. Included are previously untranslated stories, and poet Robert Duncan's version of the sonnet cycle 'Chimeras' -- making this the most complete collection of Nerval ever published in English."

Artist:	PESSOA, FERNANDO
Title:	The Book of Disquiet
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	EC PESSOA

Exact Change is the beautifully designed small press run by Damon Krukowski and Naomi Yang of Cambridge, Massachusetts. While some of us have known them for their musical activities associated with the groups named "Galaxie 500", "Magic Hour" and "Damon & Naomi" -- it is clear that their ultimate legacy as superior adherents of the soon to be defunct Human Race will emerge from the persistence and quality of cultural documentation they have developed with Exact Change. In an era where it is practically illegal for an American publishing house to have a consistent personality and generated easthetic, they have streamlined a dedication to resurrecting lost, obscure & historically significant surrealist texts, and in a few short years have presented the series listed here. Absolutely essential documentation, aimed at elevating the potentialities of the rarified human spirit, perfectly presented. "Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was a multitude of writers: his works were composed by 'heteronyms,' alter egos with distinct biographies, ideologies, influences, even horoscopes. The Book of Disquiet is the autobiography of Bernardo Soares, whom Pessoa described as a 'semiheteronym' because 'his personality is not different from mine, rather a simple mutilation of it.' But Soares never completed his book; it was discovered after Pessoa's death, on disordered scraps of paper in a trunk. Nearly fifty years later, The Book of Disquiet was finally published, but because any edition or translation of this work must choose a sequence for its entries, each presents a substantially different text." NY Times Book Review: "Limpid, aphoristic, gorgeous, sometimes maddening and utterly original, this compendium of dull days and transfiguring epiphanies is so distilled it should be dipped into in small does over a lifetime."

Artist:	PESSOA, FERNANDO
Title:	The Education of the Stoic: The Only Manuscript...
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	EC PESSOA2

...of the Baron of Teive." "Portuguese author Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935) was a multitude of writers: his works were composed by 'heteronyms,' alter egos with distinct biographies, ideologies, influences, even horoscopes. The Education of the Stoic is the only work left by the Baron of Teive, who, having destroyed all his previous attempts at literary creation, and about to destroy himself, explains 'the impossibility of producing superior art.' The baron's manuscript is found in a hotel-room drawer -- not unlike editor and translator Richard Zenith's own discovery, while conducting research in the Pessoa archives, of a small black notebook whose contents had never been transcribed. In it he found the missing pieces of this short but trenchant complement to Pessoa's major prose work, The Book of Disquiet. Pessoa himself noted that despite their dialectical differences, the middle-class author of The Book of Disquiet (assistant bookkeeper Bernardo Soares) and the aristocrat Teive, 'are two instances of the very same phenomenon -- an inability to adapt to real life.'"

Artist:	PICASSO, PABLO
Title:	The Burial of the Count of Orgaz & Other Poems
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	EC PICASSO

"Pablo Picasso may be the most famous and influential artist of the twentieth century. What few know is that in 1935, at age 54, Picasso stopped painting, and for a time devoted himself entirely to poetry. Even after eventually resuming his visual work, Picasso continued to write, in a characteristic torrent, until 1959 -- leaving a body of poems that André Breton praised as, 'an intimate journal, both of the feelings and the senses, such as has never been kept before.' Near the end of his life, Picasso himself would tell a friend that, 'long after his death his writing would gain recognition and encyclopedias would say: 'Picasso, Pablo Ruiz - Spanish poet who dabbled in painting, drawing and sculpture.' Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris have overseen a project to translate the majority of this writing into English for the first time. Working from Picasso's Spanish and French (he wrote in both languages), they have enlisted the help of over a dozen colleagues in order to mark, as they note in their introduction, 'Picasso's entry into our own time.' Picasso's poems are as protean, erotic, scatological, and experimental as his visual art -- yet they arrive as a twenty-first century surprise, even for many devotees."

Artist:	ROUSSEL, RAYMOND
Title:	How I Wrote Certain Of My Books
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	EC ROUSSEL

Reprinted. "Raymond Roussel (1877-1933), next-door neighbor of Marcel Proust, can be described without exaggeration as the most eccentric writer of the twentieth century. His unearthly style based on elaborate linguistic riddles and puns fascinated the Surrealists, above all Duchamp, but also writers as diverse as Gide, Robbe-Grillet, and Foucault (author of a book-length study of Roussel). The title essay of this collection is the key to Roussel's method, and it is accompanied by selections from all his major works of fiction, drama, and poetry, translated by his New York School admirers John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Harry Mathews, and Trevor Winkfield. Ashbery writes that Roussel's work is 'like the perfectly preserved temple of a cult which has disappeared without a trace? we can still admire its inhuman beauty, and be stirred by a language that seems always on the point of revealing its secret.'

Artist:	SCHWITTERS, KURT
Title:	PPPPPP: Poems Performance Pieces Proses Plays Poetics
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	EC SCHW

"Kurt Schwitters (1887-1948), inventor of his own personal branch of Dadaism called 'Merz,' is best known for his collages and for his monumental constructions called Merzbau. But Schwitters' stated goal was 'to erase the boundaries between the arts' -- he said his poems were 'a kind of drawing' while his collages 'demand to be read.' This collection, culled from five volumes of Schwitters' writings published in Germany, introduces the total work of art that is Merz via Schwitters' words rather than images. Included is the complete text for the 'Ur Sonata,' which, as renowned poets/editors/translators Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris comment, 'is to sound poetry what Joyce's Ulysses is to the twentieth-century novel.'" 288 pages, paperbound, $17.95 list price.

Artist:	SOUPAULT, PHILIPPE
Title:	Last Nights Of Paris
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	EC SOUPAULT

This classic 1928 novel, available again, as translated by William Carlos Williams. "Co-author with André Breton of the first self-proclaimed book of automatic writing, Les Champs Magnétiques(1919), Philippe Soupault was one of the founders of the Surrealist movement. A poet, novelist, and journalist, with a much less political and less theoretical approach to writing than his colleagues Breton and Aragon, Soupault was expelled from the movement in 1926 -- along with Antonin Artaud -- for their isolated pursuit of the stupid literary adventure. Last Nights of Paris in English is a surprising artifact of the twenties...[it] seems to share much with both the Surrealist novels (Nadja, Paris Peasant) and the American expatriate novels (The Great Gatsby, The Days of the Locust) of its day. It's underworld setting, the narrator's obsession with a woman and identification of her with the place she inhabits, the plot that seems to tend toward conflagration, its preoccupation with chance and with the city -- all could be drawn variously from the novels mentioned above.

Artist:	THEMERSON, STEFAN
Title:	Bayamus & Cardinal Pölätüo
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	EC THEMER

"Two riotous novels by the Polish-born British writer Stefan Themerson (1910-1988), who with his wife Franciszka ran the Gaberbocchus Press in London. Gaberbocchus published both Kurt Schwitters and Bertrand Russell -- and these extremes unite in Themerson's highly individual brand of philosophical Dadaism. Bayamus recounts the adventures of a self-proclaimed mutant with three legs (one is attached to a roller skate) and his efforts to propagate a new species; it includes an instructive visit to the 'Theatre of Semantic Poetry,' where old rhymes mutate into new truths. Cardinal Pölätüo is the biography of Guillaume Apollinaire's anonymous father, who turns out to be an ecclesiastic with a murderous interest in modernist poetry, a faith based on science, and a dreamlife so frankly obscene that only a dictionary of Freudian symbols can explain its innocence."

Artist:	WELCH, DENTON
Title:	In Youth Is Pleasure
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	EC WELCH

New 2008 edition (originally reissued by Exact Change in 1994), with added cover blurb from Richard Hell! "First published in 1945, In Youth is Pleasure is a beautiful and unassuming coming-of-age novel by the English writer and painter Denton Welch (1915-1948). Painfully sensitive and sad Orville Pym is fifteen years old, and this novel recounts the summer holiday after his first miserable year at public school -- but as in all of Welch's work what is most important are the details of his characters' surroundings. Welch is a Proustian writer of uncanny powers of observation who, as William Burroughs writes, 'makes the reader aware of the magic that is right under his eyes.' Also included in this edition is the first U.S. publication of I Left my Grandfather's House. This first-person account of a idyllic walking tour in the British countryside undertaken when Welch was eighteen makes a fascinating companion piece to the fictionalized, though no less autobiographical, In Youth is Pleasure." "Delicacy of perception is precisely the same thing as delicacy of description. Denton Welch is like a British baby Proust in his astounding grasp of his own (usually 'mundane') experience. Nothing much happens in his books but the most wonderful writing." -- Richard Hell

Artist:	WELCH, DENTON
Title:	Maiden Voyage
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	EC WELCH3

"Maiden Voyage is an account of author Denton Welch's sixteenth year, when he ran away from his English public school and was then sent to Shanghai to live with his father. The book was Welch's first and created a sensation on publication in 1943; its frank description of public schoolboy life forced publisher Herbert Read to initially seek advice from libel lawyers. Even Winston Churchill's private secretary gossiped in a letter that, 'the book was reeking with homosexuality... I think I must get it.' Today, Welch's expressions of sexuality may seem more demure than outrageous, but his portrayal of the passions and humiliations of adolescence is graphic. As in all of Welch's novels, it is the precisely realized details of the author's physical and social surroundings that make the book such a remarkable journey."

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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Artist:	STEIN, GERTRUDE
Title:	Everybody's Autobiography
Label:	EXACT CHANGE
Format:	Book
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	EC STEIN