Edition 69 - Softcover

Vitezslav, Nezval

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8086264092 ISBN 13: 9788086264097

Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press, 2004

Synopsis

Selections from the original six volumes of surrealist, erotic literature and illustration from 1931 available for the first time. Because of censorship laws, Edition 69 series was never for sale, nor was it made available to libraries. The books were exclusively for subscribers, collectors, and a circle of friends, the Czech avant-garde investigating the taboos of bourgeois culture. This volume includes the two most important texts in the series: * Nezval's Sexual Nocturne * Styrsky's Emilie Come to Me in a Dream * an original essay from psychoanalyst Bohuslav Brouk, a founding member of the Czechslovak Surrealist Group and much influenced by Max Ernst.

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Review:

Jindrich Styrsky’s "Emily Comes to Me in a Dream" ... is an exquisite exercise in dream-writing. -- RALPH

The publication of Edition 69 in Slast’s graceful translation is a landmark event in itself. -- Travis Jeppesen, Think again

Worth seeking out by anyone with a taste for a kind of writing that is distinctively middle European. -- Nicholas Clee, The Guardian

[An] absolute gem, offering for the first time in English a pair of linguistically innovative works. -- Czech Business Weekly

[Edition 69] is an absolute gem, offering for the first time in English a pair of linguistically innovative works ... -- Czech Business Weekly

About this edition

• Publisher: Twisted Spoon Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 8086264092
• ISBN 13: 9788086264097
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136