![]() In his Foreword Nezval states: "I wrote this novel out of a love of the mystique in those ancient tales, superstitions and romances, printed in Gothic script, which used to flit before my eyesĪnd declined to convey to me their content." Part fairy tale, part Gothic horror, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a meditation on youth and age, sexuality and death, an androgynous merging ofīrother with sister, an exploration of the grotesque with the shifting registers of language, mood, and genre that were a hallmark of the CzechĪvant-garde. ![]() Lecherous priests, a malicious grandmother desiring her lost youth. Menacing dream of sexual awakening involving a vampire with an insatiable appetite for chicken blood, changelings, Murnau's film Nosferatu, Nezval employs the language of the pulp serial novel to fashion a lyrical, ![]() Referencing Matthew Lewis's The Monk, Marquis de Sade's Justine, K. Is a bizarre erotic fantasy of a young girl's maturation into womanhood on the night of her first menstruation. Written in 1935 at the height of Czech Surrealism but not published until 1945, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders home catalogue authors ordering submissions news about donate.PO Box 21 - Preslova 12, 150 00 Prague 5, Czech Republic ![]()
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