Unica Zurn

• Jan-2000
• / General Fiction

Dark Spring is an autobiographical coming-of-age novel that reads more like an exorcism than a memoir. In it author Unica Zurn traces the roots of her obsessions: The exotic father she idealized, the "impure" mother she detested, the masochistic fant...

• Jun-2015
• / Literary

This fierce fable of childbirth by German Surrealist Unica Zürn was written after she had already given birth to two children and undergone the self-induced abortion of another in Berlin in the 1950s. Beginning in the relatively straightforward, if ...

• Jan-2021
• / General Fiction

Anagram play meets psychic crisis in Unica Zürn’s acclaimed Surrealist document of mental precarityIn the 25 years since Atlas Press first published this account by Unica Zürn (1916–70) of her long history of mental crises, she ...