This fierce fable of childbirth by German Surrealist Unica Zurn 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 disturbing, narrative of a young woman in a tower (with a bat in her hair and ravens for company) engaged in a psychic war with the parasitic son in her belly, The Trumpets of Jericho dissolves into a beautiful nightmare of hypnotic obsession and mythical language, stitched together with anagrams and private ruminations. Arguably Zurn's most...
This fierce fable of childbirth by German Surrealist Unica Zurn was written after she had already given birth to two children and undergone the self-i...