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Launched in 1931 by Jindrich Styrsky, Edition 69 consisted of six volumes of erotic literature and illustration that followed the path marked out by Louis Aragon's "Irene's Cunt" and Georges Bataille's "Story of the Eye." Including the first Czech translation of Marquis de Sade's "Justine" and Pietro Aretino (both illustrated by Toyen), three volumes were from contemporary Czech avant-garde artists, and these were all illustrated by Styrsky himself, who also contributed the text for the last volume of the series. Because of the censorship laws Styrsky encountered with his illustrations for the first Czech publication of Lautreamont's "Maldoror," the Edition 69 series was not for sale in regular retail outlets, nor was it made available to libraries. As the original colophons indicate, the books were exclusively for subscribers, collectors, and a circle of friends, and the original print runs numbered no more than 200 (Styrsky's volume was limited to 69 copies).
This volume brings together English translations of the two most important texts in the series: Nezval's "Sexual Nocturne" and Styrsky's "Emilie Comes to Me in a Dream," which is also supplemented by the original essay from psychoanalyst Bohuslav Brouk, a fellow founding member of The Surrealist Group of Czechoslovakia. Additional texts from Styrsky's dream journal are included as a contextual source. Much influenced by Max Ernst's collage-novels, as well as the idea of the book-object, the over 20 illustrations are an integral component of the texts. Styrsky's illustrations and overall conception for Edition 69 as a whole rank among the most important works of Surrealism, and it represented a sustained attempt by the interwar Czech avant-garde to investigate the taboos of official culture.
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Review
... worth seeking out by anyone with a taste for a kind of writing that is distinctively middle European: intellectual, graphic and surreal. -- Nicholas Clee, The Guardian
Jindrich Styrsky's "Emily Comes to Me in a Dream" ... is an exquisite exercise in dream-writing.
-- RALPH
While the visual arts of Czech Surrealism have attracted increasing attention recently, very little Czech Surrealist literature has been translated, and from that perspective the present book is a welcome corrective. -- Peter Zusi, Slavic and East European Journal
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- PublisherTwisted Spoon Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 8086264092
- ISBN 13 9788086264097
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages136
- IllustratorStyrsky Jindrich
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