{"product_id":"down-below-by-leonora-carrington","title":"Down Below by Leonora Carrington","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"mainContent___KncIm\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv role=\"tabpanel\" id=\"title-references-tabpanel-1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"MuiBox-root css-old1by\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eA stunning work of memoir and an unforgettable depiction of the brilliance and madness by\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eone of Surrealism's most compelling figures\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1937 Leonora Carrington—later to become one of the twentieth century’s great painters of the weird, the alarming, and the wild—was a nineteen-year-old art student in London, beautiful and unapologetically rebellious. At a dinner party, she met the artist Max Ernst. The two fell in love and soon departed to live and paint together in a farmhouse in Provence. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 1940, the invading German army arrested Ernst and sent him to a concentration camp. Carrington suffered a psychotic break. She wept for hours. Her stomach became “the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003emirror\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eof the earth”—of all worlds in a hostile universe—and she tried to purify the evil by compulsively vomiting. As the Germans neared the south of France, a friend persuaded Carrington to flee to Spain. Facing the approach “of robots, of thoughtless, fleshless beings,” she packed a suitcase that bore on a brass plate the word\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRevelation\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis was only the beginning of a journey into madness that was to end with Carrington confined in a mental institution, overwhelmed not only by her own terrible imaginings but by her doctor’s sadistic course of treatment. In\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDown Below\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eshe describes her ordeal—in which the agonizing and the marvelous were equally combined—with a startling, almost impersonal precision and without a trace of self-pity. Like Daniel Paul Schreber’s\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMemoirs of My Nervous Illness\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eDown Below\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ebrings the hallucinatory logic of madness home.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Golden Hour Books","offers":[{"title":"Trade Paperback","offer_id":54012047393068,"sku":"9781681370606","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0793\/4623\/7740\/files\/downbelow.jpg?v=1788448256","url":"https:\/\/goldenhourbookstore.com\/products\/down-below-by-leonora-carrington","provider":"Golden Hour Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}