Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders - Brossura

Nezval, Vitezslav

Brossura

ISBN 10: 808626419X ISBN 13: 9788086264196

Casa editrice: Twisted Spoon Pr, 2007

Riassunto

Written in 1935 at the height of Czech Surrealism but not published until 1945, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a bizarre erotic fantasy of a young girl's maturation into womanhood. Drawing on Matthew Lewis's The Monk, Sade's Justine, K. H. Macha's May, and Murnau's Nosferatu as well as the form and language of the pulp serial novel, Nezval has constructed a lyrical, menacing dream of sexual awakening involving a vampire with a taste for chicken blood, changelings, a lecherous priest, a malicious grandmother desiring her lost youth, and an androgynous merging of brother with sister. Part fairy tale, part Gothic horror, the novel is a meditation on youth and age, sexuality and death - an exploration of the grotesque that juxtaposes high and low genres with shifting registers of language and moods, thus placing it squarely in the tradition of the Czech avant-garde.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Twisted Spoon Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 808626419X
• ISBN 13: 9788086264196
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Disegnatore: Lhotak Kamil
• Numero di pagine: 226
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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