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    <![CDATA[Dark Spring]]>
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    <![CDATA[Dark Spring is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel that reads more like an exorcism than a memoir. In it author Unica Zurn traces the roots to her obsessions: the exotic father she idealized, the &quot;impure&quot; mother she detested, the masochistic fantasies and onanistic rituals which she said described &quot;the erotic life of a little girl based on my own childhood.&quot; Dark Spring is the story of a young girl's simultaneous introduction to sexuality and mental illness, revealing a different aspect of the &quot;mad love&quot; so romanticized by the (predominantly male) Surrealists. Unica Zurn (1916-1970) emigrated in 1953 from her native Berlin to Paris, in order to live with the artist Hans Bellmer. There she exhibited drawings as a member of the Surrealist group, and collaborated with Bellmer on a series of notorious photographs, of her nude torso bound with string. In 1957, a fateful encounter with the poet and painter Henri Michaux led to the first of what would become a series of mental crises, some of which she documented in her writings. She committed suicide in 1970 - an act foretold in this, her last completed work.]]>
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  <read_at>Fri Nov 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009</read_at>
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    <body><![CDATA[Totally destroys.  Zurn is linguistically simple while conceptually complex and brief, and that makes each word sting even more.  Some beautiful ideas &amp; the ending is perfect.  Such emotional intensity without ever becoming even close to saccharine.]]></body>
    
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