Name: White Rabbits/Down Below
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Author: Leonora Carrington
ISBN: 9780241809617

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Publisher

Penguin Classics

Author

Leonora Carrington

Year

2026

Pages

128

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.80 x 12.90 x 1.50 cm

ISBN13

9780241809617

White Rabbits/Down Below

Leonora Carrington (Author) · Penguin Classics · Paperback

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Synopsis "White Rabbits/Down Below"

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 subjcted to sadistic treatment under the guise of medical care. In her memoir, Down Below, she describes her experiences with an anthropologist's precision and an artist's sense of the fantastic. This volume also includes a selection of Carrington's best stories from across her lifetime, functioning as companion pieces to her surrealist-inflected non-fiction. They include 'The Debutante', in which a young woman, wishing to avoid a ball in her honour, swaps places with a hyena; 'White Rabbits', which sees a friendly neighbour come by to ask for spare decomposing meat; and 'My Flannel Knickers', in which a woman has sainthood forced upon her.