Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9788086264196 | Valerie and Her Week of Wonders | Vitezslav Nezval | Taschenbuch

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Beschreibung

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 on the night of her first menstruation. Referencing Matthew Lewis's The Monk, Marquis de Sade's Justine, K. H. Macha's May, F. W. Murnau's film Nosferatu, Nezval employs the language of the pulp serial novel to fashion a lyrical, menacing dream of sexual awakening involving a vampire with an insatiable appetite for chicken blood, changelings, lecherous priests, a malicious grandmother desiring her lost youth.

In his Foreword Nezval states: "I wrote this novel out of a love of the mystique in those ancient tales, superstitions and romances, printed in Gothic script, which used to flit before my eyes and declined to convey to me their content." Part fairy tale, part Gothic horror, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a meditation on youth and age, sexuality and death, an androgynous merging of brother with sister, an exploration of the grotesque with the shifting registers of language, mood, and genre that were a hallmark of the Czech avant-garde. The 1970 film version is considered one of the outstanding achievements of Czech new-wave cinema.

This edition includes Kamil Lhota¡k's original illustrations.

Über den Autor

Vitezslav Nezval (1900-1958) was perhaps the most prolific writer in Prague during the 1920s and 30s. An original member of the avant-garde group of artists Devetsil (Nine Forces), he was instrumental in founding the Surrealist Group in Czechoslovakia in 1934. His output consists of a number of poetry collections, experimental plays and novels, memoirs, essays, and translations.

Erscheinungsjahr:	2007
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9788086264196
ISBN-10:	808626419X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Nezval, Vitezslav
Illustrator:	Lhotak, Kamil
Übersetzung:	Short, David
Hersteller:	Twisted Spoon Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	197 x 137 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Vitezslav Nezval
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.01.2007
Gewicht:	0,303 kg

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