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Dark Springs (Exact Change) (Paperback)

by Unica Zurn (Author), Caroline Rupprecht (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Exact Change,U.S. (6 Mar 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1878972308
  • ISBN-13: 978-1878972309
  • Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 15.2 x 1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 129,758 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Dark Spring is a semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel that reads more like an exorcism than a memoir. In terse and lucid prose, author Unica Zurn traces the roots of her own neurotic obsessions: the exotic father whom she idolised, the 'impure' mother she detested, and the masochistic fantasies and masturbatory rituals which she said described 'the erotic life of a little girl based on my own childhood.' The protagonist of this story, a nameless little girl, and her playmate, Elisa, invent a howling language which they use to express the grief of the whole world. The results are savage and terrifying.

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5.0 out of 5 stars origins of the species, 5 Oct 2009
Dark Spring is a book so slight it doesn't take much more than an hour to read. It is recounted from the point of view of a twelve year old girl, living in Germany after the war. Its 80 pages recount the girl's emerging sexuality. Things happen, some of which have no right to happen. However, more than the sequence of events, which of their own might be perceived as being salacious, the key to Dark Spring's compelling, slightly nightmarish brilliance, is the way in which it captures pre-adolescent fears and desires, spearing them like one of Golding's children might have speared a fish, using a crude piece of wood, barely up to the task, but effective nonetheless.

Dark Spring, (perhaps an echo of Spring Awakening), is one of those rare texts which is bold enough to tackle the shibboleths of childhood. This transgression ensures there's a timelessness about the book, in part because the society that acknowledges a pre-pubescent sexuality is a rare one. Zürn was brave enough to remind the world that it's something that does exist, and Dark Spring is a kind of true mirror to the sanitised fantasies of Alice in Wonderland.
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