i love mentally ill women
Jul. 2nd, 2025 02:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
giantsilkmoththerapist: evil Clarice Lispector isn't real, she can't hurt you
Unica Zurn: check out my novella it's called The Trumpets of Jericho and you'll have normal feelings about it
like a lot of mentally ill women writers, especially of the surrealist and post-surrealist milieu, there's a degree to which Zurn's history of Brain Stuff outweighs in public consciousness her actual work. Even when people talk about The Man of Jasmine, for instance, they tend to focus much more on its autobiographical nature than its literary qualities. i'll write a different post about that, but the point right now is just that if you like the sparking animistic stream-of-consciousness explosions of someone like Lispector and are interested in what a more nightmarish, almost horror-tinged writer might do in that dimension, Zurn is a great person to take a look at.
Unica Zurn: check out my novella it's called The Trumpets of Jericho and you'll have normal feelings about it
like a lot of mentally ill women writers, especially of the surrealist and post-surrealist milieu, there's a degree to which Zurn's history of Brain Stuff outweighs in public consciousness her actual work. Even when people talk about The Man of Jasmine, for instance, they tend to focus much more on its autobiographical nature than its literary qualities. i'll write a different post about that, but the point right now is just that if you like the sparking animistic stream-of-consciousness explosions of someone like Lispector and are interested in what a more nightmarish, almost horror-tinged writer might do in that dimension, Zurn is a great person to take a look at.
