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Vitezslav Nezval Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (Paperback)
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- Book Title
- Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
- Publication Name
- Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
- Title
- Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
- Illustrator
- Kamil Lhotak
- Translator
- David Short
- Contributor
- David Short (Translated by)
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 808626419X
- EAN
- 9788086264196
- ISBN
- 9788086264196
- Publisher
- Twisted Spoon Press
- Genre
- Fiction
- Release Date
- 01/01/2007
- Release Year
- 2007
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- CZ
- Item Height
- 0.8in
- Item Length
- 7.7in
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 8 Oz
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Topic
- Occult & Supernatural, Erotica / General, Horror, General, Literary
- Number of Pages
- 236 Pages
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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 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 Lhotak's original illustrations."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Twisted Spoon Press
ISBN-10
808626419x
ISBN-13
9788086264196
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28038407352
Product Key Features
Book Title
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Occult & Supernatural, Erotica / General, Horror, General, Literary
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
236 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
7.7in
Item Height
0.8in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
8 Oz
Additional Product Features
Reviews
"Somewhere between the existential fables of Franz Kafka and the macabre animations of Jan àvankmajer lies VáÂtÃ,,'eºzslav Nezval. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders reminded me of a hyperactive Hammer Horror film as directed by Luis Buñuel." -- The Absinthe Literary Review, "Gothic sleazefest, menstrual fantasy, dime-store pulp fiction--Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a collage of a collage of a collage, a dream of a dream, an important early-century surrealist novel only now translated from its native Czech into English by the able David Short." -- New York Press, "Somewhere between the existential fables of Franz Kafka and the macabre animations of Jan Svankmajer lies VítÄ>zslav Nezval. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders reminded me of a hyperactive Hammer Horror film as directed by Luis Buñuel." -- The Absinthe Literary Review, "The book is a tour de force in that Nezval adopts the genre of the pulp novel for his own arch purposes. Have literary historians noticed that it is a precursor of some of our own aesthetic concerns, in other words a sort of pre-postmodern fantasy?" -- John Taylor, The Antioch Review, "Somewhere between the existential fables of Franz Kafka and the macabre animations of Jan Svankmajer lies Vítzslav Nezval. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders reminded me of a hyperactive Hammer Horror film as directed by Luis Buñuel." -- The Absinthe Literary Review, "Somewhere between the existential fables of Franz Kafka and the macabre animations of Jan Svankmajer lies VatÄ&rsa"zslav Nezval. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders reminded me of a hyperactive Hammer Horror film as directed by Luis Buñuel." -- The Absinthe Literary Review, "Gothic sleazefest, menstrual fantasy, dime-store pulp fictionValerie and Her Week of Wonders is a collage of a collage of a collage, a dream of a dream, an important early-century surrealist novel only now translated from its native Czech into English by the able David Short." -- New York Press, "Gothic sleazefest, menstrual fantasy, dime-store pulp fiction'e"Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a collage of a collage of a collage, a dream of a dream, an important early-century surrealist novel only now translated from its native Czech into English by the able David Short." -- New York Press, "Somewhere between the existential fables of Franz Kafka and the macabre animations of Jan vankmajer lies Vatzslav Nezval. Valerie and Her Week of Wonders reminded me of a hyperactive Hammer Horror film as directed by Luis Buuel." -- The Absinthe Literary Review, "Gothic sleazefest, menstrual fantasy, dime-store pulp fiction-Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a collage of a collage of a collage, a dream of a dream, an important early-century surrealist novel only now translated from its native Czech into English by the able David Short." -- New York Press
Illustrated by
Lhoták, Kamil
Copyright Date
2005
Target Audience
Trade
Illustrated
Yes
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