Valerie and Her Week of Wonders

by Vítězslav Nezval

Book Overview

Written in 1935 at the height of Czech Surrealism but not published until 1945, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a bizarre erotic fantasy of a young girl's maturation into womanhood on the night of her first menstruation. Referencing Matthew Lewis's The Monk, Marquis de Sade's Justine, K. H. Macha's May, F. W. Murnau's film Nosferatu, Nezval employs the language of the pulp serial novel to fashion a lyrical, menacing dream of sexual awakening involving...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 808626419X
• ISBN13: 9788086264196
• Release Date: June 2005
• Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 7.8"