Deze serie duikt in de donkerdere aspecten van de menselijke natuur en het onheilspellende. Het volgt personages die worstelen met verontrustende mysteries en psychologische complexiteiten die de grenzen tussen realiteit en illusie vervagen. Elk deel biedt een huiveringwekkende verkenning van verborgen waarheden en de gevolgen van hun ontdekking.
Urmuz, rumänischer Schriftsteller (1883-1923), hinterließ wenige absurde und groteske Kurzgeschichten. Er gilt als wichtiger Vorläufer der rumänischen Avantgarde, Dadaismus und Surrealismus. Oskar Pastior präsentiert in diesem Band eine Gesamtausgabe seiner Werke auf Deutsch.
Jahnns kürzester Prosatext behandelt zentrale Themen seiner Dichtung wie Jugend, Liebe, Mensch und Tod. In seinen Knabentragödien sterben Liebende gemeinsam, was Ängste vor dem einsamen Tod weckt. Winkler reflektiert über die befreiende und lebensrettende Kraft der Literatur.
A complete facsimile of the manuscript and illustrations, interleaved with a translation by Malcolm Green.00It is 25 years since Atlas Press first published Unica Zürn?s autobiographical account of the commencement of her long history of mental crises ('The Man of Jasmine', soon to be republished). In the meantime she has come to be recognised as a great artist at least the equal of her partner, the Surrealist Hans Bellmer. Zürn?s initial mental collapse was initiated when she encountered ?the Man of Jasmine? in the real world in the person of the writer Henri Michaux. Her meeting with 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. ?The House of Illnesses? was the first of her notebooks to confront this oncoming catastrophe which, paradoxically, she in part welcomed, since it gave her access to an inner existence essential to her artistic output.00In 1970 she committed suicide by throwing herself from the sixth-floor apartment that she shared with Bellmer