Down Below (NYRB Classics)
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (889 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01I85OMQ6 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 553 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-09 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Not long after, Carrington and the then-married Ernst settled in the south of France, where Carrington completed her first major painting, The Inn of the Dawn Horse(Self-Portrait), in 1939. In the wake of Ernst’s imprisonment by the Nazis, Carrington fled to Spain, where she suffered a nervous breakdown and was committed to a mental hospital in Madrid. A group of stories she wrote for her children, collected as The Milk of Dreams, is published by The New York Review C
"Five Stars" according to Norma Telles. most interesting and unusual book. Five Stars Amazon Customer I really love Marina Warner's introduction to this book.. "interesting." according to Theoni Lussos. In the end, i was rather disappointed. Without Warner's intro which was in someways overkill to the story, is better. The actual story by Carrington was disjointed and hard to follow, as expected, by not much there.
The two fell in love and soon departed to live and paint together in a farmhouse in Provence. In 1940, the invading German army arrested Ernst and sent him to a concentration camp. She wept for hours. Her stomach became “the mirror of the earth”—of all worlds in a hostile universe—and she tried to purify the evil by compulsively vomiting. Facing the approach “of robots, of thoughtless, fleshless beings,” she packed a suitcase that bore on a brass plate the word Revelation. This was only the beginning of a journey into madness that was to end with Carrington confined in a mental inst
Though Carrington completed it after the fact, her memoir hews closely to her thoughts and feelings as they were then.” —Anwen Crawford, The New Yorker"So vivid is Carrington’s step-by-step descent into madness…it is possible to read Down Below in a single sitting, but emotionally quite difficult… You get the distinct impression that for Carrington, reality is malleable." —Carmen Maria Machado, NPR"Down Below recounts Carrington’s incarceration in a Spanish asylum and her daring escape in a tone so cool that