A Little Girl Dreams Of Taking The Veil
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
One of the most dazzling and disquieting minds of the twentieth century, Max Ernst conjures a world both sacred and subversive in A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil — a collage novel that chronicles the inner life of a young girl whose religious yearnings dissolve into a fever dream of dark fantasy and surrealist invention. Originally published in French as Rêve d'une petite fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel, this work presents a harrowing yet darkly comic narrative constructed entirely from Victorian engravings, arranged with surgical precision to expose the absurdity lurking beneath the surface of piety and propriety. Translated into English by the celebrated surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning, this edition renders Ernst's dreamlike vision accessible to a new generation of readers without sacrificing an ounce of its original, unsettling power. As one of the defining figures of the Surrealist movement, Ernst consistently argued through his art that the unconscious mind holds truths that rational thought refuses to confront, and this collage novel stands as one of the most concentrated expressions of that conviction. The work sits alongside his other celebrated collage novels — La Femme 100 Têtes and Une Semaine de Bonté — as a masterpiece of the form, illustrating how cut-and-paste imagery can achieve a narrative depth and psychological intensity that rivals the greatest works of prose fiction. Whether approached as visual art, literature, or a challenge to the very boundaries between the two, this singular volume leaves the reader questioning where innocence ends and the uncanny begins.
Author: Max Ernst
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, George Braziller / New York
Genre: Graphic novels
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
One of the most dazzling and disquieting minds of the twentieth century, Max Ernst conjures a world both sacred and subversive in A Little Girl Dreams of Taking the Veil — a collage novel that chronicles the inner life of a young girl whose religious yearnings dissolve into a fever dream of dark fantasy and surrealist invention. Originally published in French as Rêve d'une petite fille qui voulut entrer au Carmel, this work presents a harrowing yet darkly comic narrative constructed entirely from Victorian engravings, arranged with surgical precision to expose the absurdity lurking beneath the surface of piety and propriety. Translated into English by the celebrated surrealist artist Dorothea Tanning, this edition renders Ernst's dreamlike vision accessible to a new generation of readers without sacrificing an ounce of its original, unsettling power. As one of the defining figures of the Surrealist movement, Ernst consistently argued through his art that the unconscious mind holds truths that rational thought refuses to confront, and this collage novel stands as one of the most concentrated expressions of that conviction. The work sits alongside his other celebrated collage novels — La Femme 100 Têtes and Une Semaine de Bonté — as a masterpiece of the form, illustrating how cut-and-paste imagery can achieve a narrative depth and psychological intensity that rivals the greatest works of prose fiction. Whether approached as visual art, literature, or a challenge to the very boundaries between the two, this singular volume leaves the reader questioning where innocence ends and the uncanny begins.