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ceilings
by Zuzana Brabcová
translated from the Czech by Tereza Novická
frontispiece by Rybka Ivanko Brabcová
Kin to the work of Leonora Carrington and Unica Zürn, Ceilings is a polyphonic novel that takes place in a mental
hospital in Prague where the "narrator" is undergoing detox treatment for substance abuse. As the borders blur
between inner experience and the outer world, between reality and dream, as the walls and ceilings hemming in the desire
for freedom fantastically break open as if into the unknown and gender fluidly shifts between brother and sister, who are
one and the same, Brabcová’s flights of imagination portray how difficult it is to “come out of oneself” and to engage with
the other in a multifarious world that demands it of us, no matter how ambivalently.
Magnesia Litera Prose Book of the Year for 2013
Ceilings Extract by Twisted Spoon Press
Ceilings is a crazy, delirious read, one that explores the complexities of being human and ruminates on how we assemble
ourselves from what has happened to us, who
we know, what we would like to happen and who we would
like to meet.
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Rupert Loydell, International Times
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The ceiling that forms the horizon of someone lying in a hospital bed becomes a metaphor for the mingling of the past
with the present, of phantasmagoria with the real. It is the very ceiling of reality, with a hole yawning with hallucinatory visions and
memories, passage through which only leads to the next, ultimate ceiling of the self.
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iLiteratura.cz
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Zuzana Brabcová's novel is a literary event, an extreme work, exceptional in its concision and poetry. |
— Petr A. Bílek Respekt
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ISBN 9788088628057
228 pp., 14 x 20 cm
softcover with flaps
1 b/w frontispiece
cover image by Unica Zürn
fiction : novel
$19.50 • £12.50
publication:
UK: April 2025
US: June 2025
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