The Trumpets of Jericho

The Trumpets of Jericho

This fierce fable of childbirth by German Surrealist Unica ZÃ¼rn was written after she had already given birth to two children and undergone the self-induced abortion of another in Berlin in the 1950s. Beginning in the relatively straightforward, if disturbing, narrative of a young woman in a tower (with a bat in her hair and ravens for company) engaged in a psychic war with the parasitic son in her belly, The Trumpets of Jericho dissolves into a beautiful nightmare of hypnotic obsession and mythical language, stitched together with anagrams and private ruminations. Arguably ZÃ¼rn's most extreme experiment in prose, and never before translated into English, this novella dramatizes the frontiers of the body-its defensive walls as well as its cavities and thresholds-animating a harrowing and painfully, twistedly honest depiction of motherhood as a breakdown in the distinction between self and other, transposed into the language of darkest fairy tales.
Unica ZÃ¼rn (1916-70) was born in GrÃ¼newald, Germany. Toward the end of World War II, she discovered the realities of the Nazi concentration camps-a revelation which was to haunt and unsettle her for the rest of her life. After meeting Hans Bellmer in 1953, she followed him to Paris, where she became acquainted with the Surrealists and developed the body of drawings and writings for which she is best remembered: a series of anagram poems, hallucinatory accounts and literary enactments of the mental breakdowns from which she would suffer until her suicide in 1970.
Country USA
Brand Wakefield Press
Manufacturer Wakefield Press
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Illustrated
ReleaseDate 2015-06-23
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781939663092

Country	USA
Brand	Wakefield Press
Manufacturer	Wakefield Press
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Illustrated
ReleaseDate	2015-06-23
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781939663092

The Trumpets of Jericho

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