The Hundred Headless Woman
By Max Ernst and Andre Breton
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"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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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