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ceilings
by Zuzana Brabcová
translated from the Czech by Tereza Novická
frontispiece by Rybka Ivanko Brabcova
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, no matter how ambivalently.
Magnesia Litera Prose Book of the Year for 2013
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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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
227 pp., 14 x 20 cm
softcover with flaps
1 b/w frontispiece
cover image by Unica Zürn
fiction : novel
RRP: $19.50 • £12.50
publication:
April 2025
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