[{"id":14935,"title":"The Man of Jasmine","dimensions":"20.9 x 23.5 cm, 199 p., language : English, publisher : Atlas Press, BCM Atlas Press, London, ISBN : 0-947757-80-5","date_begin":"1994-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2028/381","stream_count_app":5,"permalink":"the-man-of-jasmine","description_ru":null,"description_de":null,"description_es":null,"description_el":null,"short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/034/012/large/AN_002_29112016.jpg?1480434158","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1970, Unica Z\u0026uuml;rn, 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 lucidity in \u003cem\u003eThe Man of Jasmine\u003c/em\u003e, subtitled \u003cem\u003eImpressions from a Mental Illness\u003c/em\u003e. Z\u0026uuml;rn\u0026rsquo;s mental collapse was initiated when she encountered in the real world her childhood fantasy figure \u0026ldquo;the man of jasmine\u0026rdquo;: 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 overwhelmed her present life. Her return to \u0026ldquo;reality\u0026rdquo; was constantly interrupted by alternate visionary and depressive periods. Z\u0026uuml;rn\u0026rsquo;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.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":15298,"title":"The Trumpets of Jericho","dimensions":"17.8 x 11.4 cm, 52 p., language : English, publisher : Wakefield Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2015, ISBN : 978-1-939663-09-2","date_begin":"1968-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp ","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2028/521","stream_count_app":6,"permalink":"the-trumpets-of-jericho","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/034/486/large/The_trumpets_of_Jericho.jpeg?1483121223","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003eThis fierce fable of childbirth by German Surrealist Unica Z\u0026uuml;rn was written after she had already given birth to two children and undergone the self-induced abortion of another in Berlin in the 1950s. Beginning in the relatively straightforward, if disturbing, narrative of a young woman in a tower (with a bat in her hair and ravens for company) engaged in a psychic war with the parasitic son in her belly, \u003cem\u003eThe Trumpets of Jericho\u003c/em\u003e dissolves into a beautiful nightmare of hypnotic obsession and mythical language, stitched together with anagrams and private ruminations. Arguably Z\u0026uuml;rn\u0026#39;s most extreme experiment in prose, this novella dramatizes the frontiers of the body\u0026mdash;its defensive walls as well as its cavities and thresholds\u0026mdash;animating a harrowing and painfully, twistedly honest depiction of motherhood as a breakdown in the distinction between self and other, transposed into the language of darkest fairy tales.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"http://wakefieldpress.com/zurn_trumpets.html\"\u003eNovel\u0026#39;s website\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]},{"id":15299,"title":"Dark Spring","dimensions":"20.2 x 15.2 cm, 115 p., language : English, publisher : Exact Change, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000, ISBN : 978-1-878972-30-9","date_begin":"1969-01-01","material":"ink, paper","short_description":"","art_status_id":13,"legal_status_id":47,"category_id":26,"platform_id":1,"deleted":false,"asset_count":1,"stream_count":0,"collection":"Collection M HKA, Antwerp","cached_tag_list":"artist novel","publishing_process_id":1,"annotation":"","date_end":null,"reference":"B 2028/522","stream_count_app":6,"permalink":"dark-spring","description_ru":"","description_de":"","description_es":"","description_el":"","short_description_du":null,"short_description_fr":null,"short_description_ru":null,"short_description_de":null,"short_description_es":null,"short_description_el":null,"description_ca":null,"short_description_ca":null,"description_it":null,"short_description_it":null,"cached_primary_asset_url":null,"cached_actor_names":null,"hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"mhka_works":true,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/034/487/large/Dark_Spring.jpg?1483121695","poster_credits":null,"translations":[{"locale":"en","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLiterary synopsis \u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDark Spring\u003c/em\u003e is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel that reads more like an exorcism than a memoir. Unica Z\u0026uuml;rn traces the roots of her obsessions: the exotic father she idealized, the \u0026quot;impure\u0026quot; mother she detested, the masochistic fantasies and onanistic rituals which she said described \u0026quot;the erotic life of a little girl based on my own childhood.\u0026quot; \u003cem\u003eDark Spring\u003c/em\u003e is the story of a young girl\u0026#39;s simultaneous introduction to sexuality and mental illness, revealing a different aspect of the \u0026quot;mad love\u0026quot; so romanticized by the (predominantly male) Surrealists.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","description":""},{"locale":"fr","description":""}]}]