Unica Zürn
German
Born in Berlin in 1916
Moved to Paris with Hans Bellmer in 1953 In Paris, she exhibited drawings with the Surrealists, pubilshed anagramatic poems and collaborated with Hans Bellmer in some photographs typical of his controversial style
Began to suffer psychological turmoil/distress and a series of hospitalizations beginning in 1957, following her encounter with poet/painter Henri Michaux
Committed suicide in 1970


Published Works

FICTION & MEMOIRS (in English translation)

?date? The House of Illneses [Serpent's Tale, 1993]
1976   The Man of Jasmine (written '65-'69? published '76
        [Serpent's Tail, 1994],[Atlas Press, ?date?])
1969   Dark Spring [Merlin Verlag],[Exact Change, 2000]

FICTION & MEMOIRS (im Deutsche)

1953   The Witches' Texts

IMAGES (Deutsche)

?date? Bilder 1953 - 1970 [republished by Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst;
        1. Aufl edition, 1998]

Related Links

Anagramme (Deutsche)

Anagramme (English translation, couresy Google)


Excerpt

From Dark Spring :

Sometimes, when Franz visits, he makes her laugh so hard that she ends up wetting her panties. The smell of it attracts the dog, who puts his head between her legs. This gives her an idea. She goes down to the bsement and over to the dog pen, where she lies down on the cold cement floor with her legs spread apart. The dog starts to lick in between her legs. The cold only increases her sense of pleasure. Feeling the ecstasy, she arches her belly towards this patient tongue. Her back hurts from the hard stone. She loves to be in pain while enduring her pleasure. She is greatly aroused, even more so because of the possibility that, at any given moment, someone might come to watch her. Through the door she can here the sound of her father's secretary typing. While she yields to the dog's tongue for hours, her brother discovers something new upstairs. Sitting at his mother's dressing table, he busies himself with the electric vibrator their mother uses for her beauty care. This vibrator stimulates whichever part of the body it is applied to. The mother massages her face with it; the son puts it into his open pants. When she comes upstairs from the basement, weakened and dizzy, she sees her brother lose his semen, his head thrust back and his eyes closed. The sky has darkened. There is the threat of a thunderstorm and the atmosphere is tense. The adults pay no attention to the two children, who have nothing better to do than to keep experiencing, over and over again, this indescribably powerful feeling.

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