Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
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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 Mat...
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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.
Detaljer
Forlag
Twisted Spoon Press
ISBN
9788086264196
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
228
Udgivelsesdato
01-01-2007
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
1625732
EAN nr.
9788086264196
Varegruppe
Fiction
Højde/Dybde (mm)
147
Bredde (mm)
198
Længde (mm)
18
Vægt (g)
288