Dark Spring

Unica Zürn

• Other Authors Caroline Rupprecht (Translator)
• Title

  Dark Spring

• Date 2000
• ISBN 9781878972309
• Publisher Cambridge, MA: Exact Change
• Description 128 p., 8.25 in.
• Language English, translated from German
• Collections Permanent Collection
• Summary

  Dark Spring is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel that reads more like an exorcism than a memoir. In it author Unica Zürn traces the roots to her obsessions: the exotic father she idealized, the “impure” mother she detested, the masochistic fantasies and onanistic rituals which she said described “the erotic life of a little girl based on my own childhood.” Dark Spring is the story of a young girl’s simultaneous introduction to sexuality and mental illness, revealing a different aspect of the “mad love” so romanticized by the (predominantly male) Surrealists. (Exact Change)

• Tags Fiction, Autofiction, Bildungsroman, Germany and German Language, Translation