Down Below (NYRB Classics)

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Down Below (NYRB Classics)

Leonora Carrington is perhaps the most enchanting of the women Surrealists. TheÂ daughter of Anglo Irish privilege, she broke free of her manor-house upbringingÂ and fled, first to art school, and then to the Continent. Though she is best knownÂ as a painter of the gothic fantastic, with a cult following and one-woman shows atÂ museums around the world, her writing is no less striking.Â Down BelowÂ describesÂ the events of 1940, when, after her longtime lover, artist Max Ernst was sent toÂ a concentration camp, Carrington was â€œled across the border of Knowledgeâ€ andÂ imprisoned in a sanatorium for the insane. This powerful testament, reminiscent ofÂ Carringtonâ€™s great novelÂ The Hearing Trumpet, ranks with the work of Sylvia PlathÂ and Janet Frame in its raw evocation of madness.

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