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The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts

Unica Zürn

Paperback | Pages: 202 pages

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Title	:	The Man of Jasmine & Other Texts
Author	:	Unica Zürn
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 202 pages
Published	:	December 1st 1994 by Serpent's Tail (first published January 1st 1971)
Categories	:	Fiction. European Literature. German Literature. Mental Health. Mental Illness. Health. Literature

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In 1970, Unica Zurn, the companion and lover of the Surrealist artist Hans Bellmer, threw herself from the sixth floor window of their apartment in Paris. Her suicide was the culmination of thirteen years of mental crises which are described with disarming, honest lucidity in 'The Man Of Jasmine', subtitled Impressions from a Mental Illness. Zurn's mental collapse was initiated when she encountered in the real world her childhood fantasy figure "the man of jasmine": he was the writer Henri Michaux, and her meeting him plunged her into a world of hallucination in which visions of her desires, anxieties and events from her unresolved past simply overwhelmed her present life. Her return to "reality" was constantly interrupted by alternate visionary and depressive periods. Zurn's compelling narrative also reveals her uneasy relationship with words and language, which she attempted to resolve by the compulsive writing of anagrams. Anagrams allowed her to dissect the language of everyday, to personalise it, and to make it reveal hidden at its core astonishing messages, threats and evocations. They formed the basis of her interpretation of the split between her inner & outer lives and underpin the texts included in this selection. The Man of Jasmine is certainly one of the greatest descriptions of mental collapse, but it is much more. Zurn's familiarity with Surrealist conceptions of the psyche, and her extraordinary self-possession during the most alarming experiences are allied to vivid descriptive powers which make this a literary as well as a psychological masterpiece.

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ISBN:	0947757805 (ISBN13: 9780947757809)
Edition Language:	English

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Unica Zürn was a German author and painter. She is remembered for her works of anagram poetry, exhibitions of automatic drawing, and her photographic collaborations with Hans Bellmer.

Oh, this is one of the most important books in the world to me. A cause of great shifts in how I think about language/hidden messages in the everyday

Unica Zürn was a German author and painter. She is remembered for her works of anagram poetry, exhibitions of automatic drawing, and her photographic collaborations with Hans Bellmer.

One woman's mind is another creature's bedlam

The best introduction to Zurn's work. Worth reading for lovers of Henri Michaux, too --he was, Zurn believed, the Man of Jasmine, a figure of whom she'd dreamed ever since childhood.

En indføring i et sind der ikke kan passe ind og behandlingen deraf. Hovedpersonens labyrintiske tankespind i starten vælter sammen til et samsurium af indtryk, talmagi, anagramdigtining og faldende strukturer. Sidenhen følger man følgerne; indlæggelse, selvmordsforsøg og liv i flertal der synes at visne hen på galeanstalter og hospitaler. Konkret kan man sige bogen minder meget om glasklokken - et forfald og en indføring i et univers man kan se sig selv heldig/lykkelig for ikke at kende bedre

Unica Zürn, Henry Michaux ile 1957 yılında tanışması sonrası Yasemin Adam ile tanışmış olmanın hazzıyla mucizevi bir yola girer. Ailesi ile ilgili problemlerin altyapısı ile şizofrenisi ise 1960 yılında ortaya çıkmaya başlar. Yasemin Adam kitabı Michaux'tan olduğu kadar Hans Bellmer'den de ilhamını alıyor çokca... Yayınevinin Tezer Özlü'ye benzettiği Unica, otomatik metinleri ve yarı otobiyografik anlatısıyla tam bir sürrealist olması sebebiyle hayatını intihar ederek sonlandırması ve umutsuz