Humanoids has introduced the English-language launch of Céline Wagner‘s Betrayal of the Mind: The Surreal Life of Unica Zurn for March 2024. The graphic novel charts the life of the late German surrealist author, poet and painter Unica Zurn (1916-1970). This will mark Céline Wagner’s English-language debut. No translator has been named for the work, which comes from the writer’s Life Drawn imprint.
The guide’s synopsis:
“A childhood devastated by rape, the absence of an idealized father, a strict ethical mom, and a ardour for artwork formed Unica Zürn. One of the one distinguished feminine figures of the Surrealist motion, Zürn was suffering from inside demons that she shared by her computerized drawings and anagram poems. She longed for and rejected intimacy directly, looking for her so-called Man of Jasmine, an idealized male determine, all through her life whereas dwelling because the companion of Hans Bellmer, famous artist and photographer.
“As her schizophrenia began to overtake her, she longed to make the woman she once was disappear into the nameless pronoun She. In the eyes of Unica Zürn, madness was the only way to be in the world.”
Betrayal of the Mind was initially revealed in French as La Trahison du réel: Unica Zürn, portrait d’une schizophrène [tr. The betrayal of reality: Unica Zürn, portrait of a schizophrenic] with writer La Boîte à Bulles in 2019.
Céline Wagner is a French graphic novelist with an early inventive background in experimental poetry and comedian collectives. Her early revealed comics work was in magazines however she made the leap to graphic novels in partnership with revered comics auteur Edmond Baudouin with 2003’s Les Yeux dans le mur [Eyes in the Wall], revealed by Dupuis. Wagner has received a number of awards for her work together with a 2016 Montargis pageant prize and the 2017 Grand Prix Artémisia [prize for women cartoonists] for 2016 guide Frapper le sol [tr. Hitting the Ground], a biography of Tatsumi Hijikata, the inventor of Japanese dance kind butô. Betrayal of the Mind is Wagner’s seventh graphic novel.
Humanoids has a constant observe report of selecting up books from French writer La Boîte à Bulles, significantly for its Life Drawn imprint. All the Life Drawn imprint early titles introduced in 2018 (Nicolas Wild’s Kabul Disco; Clement Baloup’s Vietnamese Memories; and Carole Maurel’s Luisa: Now And Then) have been pickups from the La Boîte à Bulles, which this 12 months celebrates 20 years of existence.
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