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The Hundred Headless Woman
The Hundred Headless Woman
The Hundred Headless Woman
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Originally published in Paris in 1929, this collage novel by avant-gardist Max Ernst constitutes a seminal 20th-century work of art. The artist's striking combinations of engravings from Victorian-era books and magazines, accompanied by enigmatic captions, offer a universe of mystery replete with all the possibilities of the bizarre dream world of the surreal. Images speak, language illustrates, and the reader's imagination provides the glue.
"Irrational, violent, tender, ironic, Max Ernst has invoked the whole kaleidoscope of human phenomena in these collages ... [turning them] into stunning proposals for adventure," noted this volume's translator, Dorothea Tanning. The Hundred Headless Woman was the first of Ernst's collage novels, and its classic status ensures a place in modern art history classes. Every visit and re-visit to its pages tells a different story, an endlessly fascinating tale that runs an emotional gamut from keen humor to outright horror.
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Release dateOct 23, 2017
ISBN9780486825977
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    The Hundred Headless Woman - Max Ernst

    THE HUNDRED HEADLESS WOMAN

    THE HUNDRED HEADLESS WOMAN

    MAX ERNST

    FOREWORD BY

    ANDRÉ BRETON

    TRANSLATED BY

    DOROTHEA TANNING

    DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC.

    MINEOLA, NEW YORK

    Copyright

    English translation copyright © 1981 by Dorothea Tanning

    All rights reserved.

    Bibliographical Note

    This Dover edition, first published in 2017, is an unabridged republication of the Dorothea Tanning translation of the work as published by George Brazilier. New York, in 1981. The work was originally published as La femme 100 têtes by Editions du Carrefour, Paris, in 1929.

    International Standard Book Number

    ISBN-13: 978-0-486-81911-2

    ISBN-10: 0-486-81911-6

    Manufactured in the United States by LSC Communications

    81911601 2017

    www.doverpublications.com

    CONTENTS

    Foreword

    To Max

    Chapter One

    Chapter Two

    Chapter Three

    Chapter Four

    Chapter Five

    Chapter Six

    Chapter Seven

    Chapter Eight

    Last Chapter

    FOREWORD

    The splendid illustrations of novels and children’s books like Rocambole or Costal the Indian, intended for persons who can scarcely read, are among the few things capable of moving to tears those who can say they have read everything. This road to knowledge, which tends to substitute the most forbidding, mirageless desert for the most astonishing virgin-forest, is not, unhappily, of the sort that permits retreat. The most we can hope for is to peek into some old gilt-edged volume, some pages with turned-down corners (as if we were only allowed to find the magician’s hat), sparkling or somber pages that might reveal better than all else the special nature of our dreams, the elective reality of our love, the manner of our life’s incomparable unwinding. And if such is the way a soul is formed, how would one view the ordinary simple soul that is daily formed by sight and sound rather than texts, that needs the massive shock of the sight of blood, the ceremonious blacks and whites, the ninety-degree angle of spring light, the miracles found in trash, the popular songs; of that candid soul that vibrates in millions and that on the day of revolution, and just because of that simple candor, will carve its true emblems in the unalterable

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