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ceilings
by Zuzana Brabcová
translated from the Czech by Tereza Novická
frontispiece by Rybka Ivanko Brabcova
Kin to the work of Leonora Carrington and Unica Zürn, Ceilings takes place in a mental hospital in Prague where the narrator is undergoing treatment
in the detox ward. As the border blurs between inner experience and the outer world, between reality and dream, as the walls and ceilings limiting
the desire for freedom fantastically break apart and open as if into the unknown, what is imaginatively examined is the resolve or inability to "come out
of oneself" (per Levinas) to recognize the preponderance of others in a multifaceted world with which society demands that we engage, even if ambivalently.
Magnesia Litera Prose Book of the Year for 2013
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ISBN 9788088628057
approx. 230 pp., 14 x 20 cm
softcover with flaps
1 b/w frontispiece
fiction : novel
RRP: $20 • £13
publication:
autumn/winter 2024
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