White Rabbits/Down Below
$21.91
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2026
Summary
Playful, sharp, and fantastical - a new selection of writing by Leonora Carrington, the last great Surrealist.
In 1940, Leonora Carrington - a twenty-two-year-old British-born Surrealist artist - was persuaded to flee France and the advancing German army for Spain. Already suffering from a psychotic break occasioned by the arrest of her lover by the Nazi authorities, she was soon confined to a mental institution, where she was subjected to sadistic treatment under the guise of medical…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241809617 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241809614 |
| Author: | Leonora Carrington |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 112g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 8mm |
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Carrington’s stories are optimistic and nihilistic, beautiful and grotesque, tender and cruel… Her stories make brambles out of my brain – Sheila HetiA classic… I remember reading [Down Below] on a park bench in summer of 2020 and thinking: this is what is happening to me. Also, it contains the closest approximation you can get to a diagram of God’s perineum – Patricia Lockwood
About The Author
Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington was a British-born Surrealist painter and writer. Described as a leading light of the Surrealist movement, alongside artists such as Pablo Picasso and Joan Miró, Carrington was born in Lancashire in 1917 to a strict Catholic family. She first encountered Surrealism through her lover, the Surrealist painter Max Ernst, before relocating to Mexico in 1942. Her most celebrated work of writing, The Hearing Trumpet, was initially published in French in 1974 and subsequently in English in 1976.
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