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Lädt ... Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1945)von Vítězslav Nezval
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Astounding. Not sure if I would have been as excited if I had not read [b:In Search of the Swan Maiden: A Narrative on Folklore and Gender|768293|In Search of the Swan Maiden A Narrative on Folklore and Gender|Barbara F. Leavy|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1417986142s/768293.jpg|754357], [b:The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories|49011|The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories|Angela Carter|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1388633104s/49011.jpg|47950], and on my re-read of [b:Lolita|7604|Lolita|Vladimir Nabokov|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1377756377s/7604.jpg|1268631]. Will return to this later, but what a dazzling, fun nightmarescape. Next to the Bloody Chamber as a favourite fairy tale. I must say that it was not exactly beautifully written (It might be due to the translation though), the dialogues tend to be a bit dull but the story is just amazing, surrealistic and full of metaphors; it is magical and pretty dark at the same time. I watched the film first (I was completely unaware of the existence of a book)and I simply loved it, every minute of it was an obscure fairytale. The novel is, I would say, as good as the film, you understand some things more easily when having read it so I would recommend to read the book before watching the film. Zeige 4 von 4 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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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 Lhoták's original illustrations. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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Love, love, love this story. I fell in love with the movie years ago, and I almost can't believe I love the book even more. Alice in Wonderland through the lens of puberty and coming of age.
As much as I enjoyed this story and how it is told, I must admit this: It is not going to be for everybody, or even for most. Surrealism is a seldom acquired taste, and when it is mixed with sex and horror I think it must become even more difficult to digest for some. But if all those aspects sound appealing to you, I think you too will enjoy this strange adventure. ( )