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    612-822-4611

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On Homo Rodans and Other Writings

On Homo Rodans and Other Writings

Varo, Remedios
Carson, Margaret
Varo, Remedios

Paperback

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Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1939663911
ISBN13: 9781939663917
Publisher: Wakefield Press
Published: Jun 11 2024
Pages: 184
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.60 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.00
Language: English

An updated, expanded edition of Remedios Varo's translated writings, including pieces never before published in any language

With the 2018 publication of Letters, Dreams, and Other Writings, Wakefield Press introduced the writings of Surrealist painter Remedios Varo into English for the first time. These texts, never published during her lifetime, present something of a missing chapter, and offer the same qualities to be found in her visual work: an engagement with mysticism and magic, a breakdown of the border between the everyday and the marvelous, a love of mischief and an ongoing meditation on escape in all its forms. This new, expanded volume brings together the painter's collected writings, an unpublished interview, letters to friends and acquaintances, dream accounts, notes for unrealized projects, a project for a theater piece, whimsical recipes for controlled dreaming, exercises in Surrealist automatic writing and prose-poem commentaries on her paintings. It also includes her longest manuscript, the pseudoscientific On Homo rodans an absurdist study of the wheeled predecessor to Homo sapiens (the skeleton of which Varo had built out of chicken bones). Written by the invented anthropologist Hälikcio von Fuhrängschmidt, the essay utilizes eccentric Latin and a tongue-in-cheek pompous discourse to explain the origins of the first umbrella and in what ways Myths are merely corrupted Myrtles. Also included are newly discovered writings, including three short stories, never before published in any language.

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