Leonora Carrington

Hulvaton surrealismin klassikkoteos ensimmäistä kertaa suomeksiMarian Leatherby on 92-vuotias, kun hän saa uuden kuulotorvensa avulle selville, että hänen perheensä juonii hänen sulkemistaan laitokseen. Pian hän löytääkin itsensä mystisestä vanhainkodista, jossa rakennukset näyttävät syntymäpäiväkakuilta ja igluilta, ja hulvaton surrealistinen seikkailu saa alkunsa.Alun perin vuonna 1974 julkaistu Kuulotorvi on yksi surrealismin merkkiteoksia, joka ilahduttaa uusia lukijoita vuosikymmenestä toiseen. Carringtonin kirjoja ei ole koskaan aiemmin julkaistu suomeksi.Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) oli kuvataiteilija ja kirjoittaja, joka oli yksi surrealistisen liikkeen johtavia nimiä Pablo Picasson ja Joan Miron ohella. Yläluokkaiseen katoliseen perheeseen Britanniassa syntynyt Carrington muutti Meksikoon vuonna 1942, ja asui ja työskenteli siellä loppuikänsä.

Surrealistisk klassikar. «Ein av dei mest originale, gledelege og visjonære romanane i det 20. hundreåret», har den britiske forfattaren Ali Smith uttalt om Leonora Carringtons meisterverk «The Hearing Trumpet» frå 1974. Romanen byrjar med at 92-årige Marian Leatherby blir tvinga på pleieheim av sonen og svigerdottera. Her blir ho dradd inn i ein labyrint av underlege og etter kvart livsfarlege hendingar. På veggen i matsalen heng eit måleri av ei mystisk abbedisse, som blunkar til henne. Når Marian får tak i ei bok om abbedissa sitt liv, blir vi med fleire hundre år tilbake i tid til eit oppdrag for å bringe den heilage gralen attende til sin rettmessige eigar, gudinna Venus. «Høyreluren» er ei vilt fabulerande, humoristisk og satirisk forteljing, eit sprudlande, feministisk manifest og ein kommentar til det mannsdominerte samfunnet si rovdrift på naturen. Boka er omsett frå engelsk av Gunstein Bakke. Susanne Christensen har skrive eit etterord. «Denne boka er så inspirerande [...] Eg elskar fridomen og humoren i boka og at ho skaper sine eigne lover.» - Björk «Denne vesle boka gjorde eit kraftfullt inntrykk på meg.» - Olga Tokarczuk

A stunning work of memoir and an unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by one of Surrealism's most compelling figures In 1937 Leonora Carrington--later to become one of the twentieth century's great painters of the weird, the alarming, and the wild--was a nineteen-year-old art student in London, beautiful and unapologetically rebellious. At a dinner party, she met the artist Max Ernst. The two fell in love and soon departed to live and paint together in a farmhouse in Provence. In 1940, the invading German army arrested Ernst and sent him to a concentration camp. Carrington suffered a psychotic break. She wept for hours. Her stomach became "the mirror of the earth"--of all worlds in a hostile universe--and she tried to purify the evil by compulsively vomiting. As the Germans neared the south of France, a friend persuaded Carrington to flee to Spain. Facing the approach "of robots, of thoughtless, fleshless beings," she packed a suitcase that bore on a brass plate the word Revelation. This was only the beginning of a journey into madness that was to end with Carrington confined in a mental institution, overwhelmed not only by her own terrible imaginings but by her doctor's sadistic course of treatment. In Down Below she describes her ordeal--in which the agonizing and the marvelous were equally combined--with a startling, almost impersonal precision and without a trace of self-pity. Like Daniel Paul Schreber's Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Down Below brings the hallucinatory logic of madness home.

Marian Leatherby är 92 år gammal och i ofrivillig exil i Mexico. Hon drömmer mest av allt om att få åka till Lappland, men blir placerad på ålderdomshem av sin illasinnade familj. Väl där dras hon in i en labyrint av underliga händelser. Bland predikande psykologer, mordiska damer och en mystisk nunna som blinkar åt henne från en gammal oljemålning börjar Marian att göra uppror mot allt som har fängslat henne. Medan jorden går in i en ny istid får hon och hennes åldrade vänner uppleva ett hisnande, magiskt äventyr fullspäckat av fantastik, egensinnig mytologi och bitsk humor. Leonora Carrington är född 1917 i norra England. Efter att ha flytt till Paris med Max Ernst som 19-åring blev hon en aktiv deltagare i den franska surrealiströrelsen. Hon har sedermera varit bosatt i Mexico och USA, och konsekvent framstått som en av 1900-talets mest fascinerande och fängslande konstnärer och författare. Hörluren är en surrealistisk och feministisk klassiker som inte liknar något annat som har skrivits. Den har funnit ständigt nya läsare i 30 år och utges nu för första gången på svenska.

In 1940, Leonora Carrington - a twenty-two-year-old British-born Surrealist artist - was persuaded to flee France and the advancing German army for Spain. Already suffering from a psychotic break occasioned by the arrest of her lover by the Nazi authorities, she was soon confined to a mental institution, where she was subjcted to sadistic treatment under the guise of medical care. In her memoir, Down Below, she describes her experiences with an anthropologist's precision and an artist's sense of the fantastic. This volume also includes a selection of Carrington's best stories from across her lifetime, functioning as companion pieces to her surrealist-inflected non-fiction. They include 'The Debutante', in which a young woman, wishing to avoid a ball in her honour, swaps places with a hyena; 'White Rabbits', which sees a friendly neighbour come by to ask for spare decomposing meat; and 'My Flannel Knickers', in which a woman has sainthood forced upon her.

Ghosts, a toy horse, an ostrich egg, and a menagerie of apocalyptic and chimerical beasts feature in these characteristically playful, never-before-collected plays by the legendary surrealist writer and artist Leonora Carrington. Best known for her vivid, dreamlike paintings and darkly humorous prose, Leonora Carrington was also a brilliant playwright whose dramatic works are as subversive and sly as anything we have come to expect of her. The first comprehensive collection of Carrington's plays, this volume gathers plays from her early years in Paris to her later work in Mexico City, and includes several that have never before been translated from French and Spanish. A young woman falls in love with her rocking horse in the coming-of-age-tale Penelope--a production of which was famously staged in 1961 by Alejandro Jodorowsky. In Flannel Night Shirt, a corpse lies in a pool of blood while ghostly figures in flannel night shirts frolic in the basement. And in the ecofeminist satire Opus Siniestrus, an old woman--the sole survivor of a virus that kills only women--battles the patriarchy to prevent it from claiming the last ostrich egg in the world. Reminiscent of the films of Maya Deren and David Lynch, these are stories of repressed desires and forbidden pleasures, of myths and mysticism, magic and mayhem, from one of the most singular and imaginative minds of the twentieth century.

Ancient Mesopotamia, the Zodiac, and the land of the dead feature in this wildly surrealistic adventure story--Leonora Carrington's revolutionary second novel, long out of print. The Stone Door is an omen, an incantation, and an adventure story rolled into one. Built in layers like a puzzle box, it is the tale of two people, of love and the Zodiac and the Kabbalah, of Transylvania and Mesopotamia converging at the Caucasus, of a mad Hungarian King named B les Kilary and of a woman's discovery of an initiatory code that leads to a Cyclopean obstacle, to love, self and awareness, to the great stone door of Kescke and beyond. Written at the end of World War II but not published until 1977 and long unavailable, The Stone Door is at once a celebration of the union of Carrington and her husband, the Hungarian-born photographer Chiki Weisz, and an argument for the unification of the male and the female as a means of liberating the human race.

The British-born Mexican surrealist Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) created a spectacular Major Arcana Tarot deck some time during the 1950s, laying gold and silver leaf over brilliant color. This extraordinary work was a revelation for the public back in 2018, and it inspired the publication of The Tarot of Leonora Carrington. This second, considerably expanded edition – encouraged by the positive reception of Fulgur’s publication in 2020 – includes an introductory text by her son, Gabriel Weisz, who recalls his mother’s long involvement with the Tarot, followed by a revised and more extensive essay by scholar Susan Aberth and curator Tere Arq. The volume gathers a detailed analysis of each card: their symbolism, their relationship to other works and their iconographic origins in ancient esoteric beliefs, including the Mesoamerican influences of her adopted country.

An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Bj rk and Luis Bu uel. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth's rebirth. In between we are swept off to a most curious old-age home run by a self-improvement cult and drawn several centuries back in time with a cross-dressing Abbess who is on a quest to restore the Holy Grail to its rightful owner, the Goddess Venus. Guiding us is one of the most unexpected heroines in twentieth-century literature, a nonagenarian vegetarian named Marian Leatherby, who, as Olga Tokarczuk writes in her afterword, is "hard of hearing" but "full of life."

'Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine.'These dreamlike, carnivalesque fables by one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement are masterpieces of invention and grand-guignol humour.Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

In English for the first time, a wild and darkly funny book that combines Surrealist painter Leonora Carringon's fantastical writing and illustrations for childrenThe maverick surrealist Leonora Carrington was an extraordinary painter and storyteller who loved to make up stories and draw pictures for her children. She lived much of her life in Mexico, and her sons remember sitting in a big room whose walls were covered with images of wondrous creatures, towering mountains, and ferocious vegetation while she told fabulous and funny tales. That room was later whitewashed, but some of its wonders were preserved in the little notebook that Carrington called The Milk of Dreams. John, who has wings for ears, Humbert the Beautiful, an insufferable kid who befriends a crocodile and grows more insufferable yet, and the awesome Janzamajoria are all to be encountered in The Milk of Dreams, a book that is as unlikely, outrageous, and dreamy as dreams themselves.

A debutante frees a hyena from the zoo so that it might take her place at her coming-out ball; an artist paints a portrait of a man s dead wife, but finds she has painted herself instead; a woman makes love to a boar underneath a mountain of cats; a chicken is roasted with the brains and livers of thrushes, truffles, crushed sweet almonds, rose conserve and drops of divine liqueur; two noble sisters wonder whether anybody can be a person of quality if they wash away their ghosts with common sense ; a psychoanalyst must decide what to do with the gift of a team of Russian rats trained to operate on humans. In this first complete edition of Leonora Carrington's short stories, written throughout her life from her early years in Surrealist Paris to her late period in Dirty War-era Mexico City, the world is by turns subversive, funny, sly, wise and disarming.

"Complete Stories, a collection of Carrington's published and unpublished short stories--many newly translated from their original French and Spanish--is a terrific introduction to her bizarre, dreamlike worlds." --Carmen Maria Machado, NPR Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniously brought together than in the works of short fiction she wrote throughout her life. Published to coincide with the centennial of her birth, The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington collects for the first time all of her stories, including several never before seen in print. With a startling range of styles, subjects, and even languages (several of the stories are translated from French or Spanish), The Complete Stories captures the genius and irrepressible spirit of an amazing artist's life.

Som 20-åring rymde Leonora Carrington från England tillsammans med den 26 år äldre surrealistkonst­nären Max Ernst. Deras lika tumult­artade som inspirerande liv på den franska landsbygden ligger till grund för de två självbio­grafiska berättel­serna i I underjorden. I kortromanen ”Lille Francis” berättar Carrington i förtäckt form om den första, oroliga tiden tillsammans med Ernst, då de var på flykt undan hans svartsjuka fru. Talande stenar, gotiska slott och människor som plötsligt får djurhuvuden är självklara inslag i en sagolik men sorgsen historia. Förhållandet med Ernst slutade i katastrof. När andra världskriget utbröt sattes han i koncentrations­läger, och den ensamma Carrington fick ett mentalt sammanbrott och lades in på mentalsjukhus. Om tiden där, fastspänd naken på en brits och utsatt för plågsam chockterapi, berättar hon med plågsam uppriktighet i ”Där nere”. I underjorden dokumenterar några av de mest händelserika åren i ett oupp­hörligt fascinerande liv och är samtidigt en magisk portal till ett snårigt underland av det slag bara Leonora Carrington kan skapa. Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) var en av surrealismens mest framstående konstnärer och författare. Hon växte upp i en nord­engelsk överklassfamilj, men drogs tidigt till något av det mest fasansfulla föräldrarna kunde föreställa sig: ett liv som konstnär. Hon har varit bosatt i Frankrike och New York, men tillbringade största delen av sitt liv i exil i Mexiko. Sphinx Bokförlag har även gett ut Carringtons roman Hörluren. Några röster om den: ”Här finns drömmen om ett nytt samhälle och här realiseras ett nytt isrike, en klimatförskjutning som verkar kusligt visionär. Och Carrington, surrealist och feminist, skildrar en värld där människans djuriska sidor korresponderar med drömmen om att återerövra graal och besegra skuggorna i Rädslans hus.” – Heidi von Born, SvD ”I sanning en av de mest fantastiska romaner jag läst.” – Martin Halldin, ETC

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY ALI SMITHA classic of fantastic literature, Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet is the occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, published with an introduction by Ali Smith in Penguin Modern Classics.One of the first things ninety-two-year-old Marian Leatherby overhears when she is given an ornate hearing trumpet is her family plotting to commit her to an institution. Soon, she finds herself trapped in a sinister retirement home, where the elderly must inhabit buildings shaped like igloos and birthday cakes, endure twisted religious preaching and eat in a canteen overlooked by the mysterious portrait of a leering Abbess. But when another resident secretly hands Marian a book recounding the life of the Abbess, a joyous and brilliantly surreal adventure begins to unfold. Written in the early 1960s, The Hearing Trumpet remains one of the most original and inspirational of all fantastic novels.Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a British born Surrealist painter and writer described, alongside people such as Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro, as one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement. Born in Lancashire to a strict Catholic family, she first came into contact with surrealism through her lover, Surrealist painter Max Ernst, before moving to Mexico in 1942. The Hearing Trumpet, her most famous piece of writing, was first published in France in 1974.If you enjoyed The Hearing Trumpet, you might like Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'Reading The Hearing Trumpet liberates us from the miserable reality of our days' Luis Buñuel'One of the most original, joyful, satisfying and quietly visionary novels of the twentieth century'Ali Smith'This book is so inspiring...I love its freedom, its humour and how it invents its own laws. What specifically do I take from her? Her wig'Björk