Autore
Castagna, Valentina

Titolo
"Lo specchio della terra": Down Below e le visioni fantasmagoriche di Leonora Carrington
Periodico
In verbis
Anno: 2020 - Volume: no - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 85 - Pagina finale: 97

This article focuses on the phantasmagorical vision that can be observed in LeonoraCarrington’s memoir Down Below, a work which mingles autobiographywith some elements of fiction to tell about the author’s experience of mentaldisorder during World War II. The work is disseminated with hermetic messagesanimated by animal transfigurations of human beings and symbolic descriptionsof space which are analysed here with the aim to restore literary value to theconscious phantasmagorical representation of this life experience. The memoiris here considered as an admirable surrealist narration of the young artist’s resistancetowards family and social constraints. The rich visual language used by theauthor displays her attempt to resist homologation to bourgeois standards andto respect her artistic talents. The symbolism of which Carrington makes use canbe traced back to the Surrealist circle but it is also regarded as being the resultof deep cultural stratifications from the Irish folklore she was fascinated by as achild to ancient alchemy connected to her friendship with Pierre Mabille.



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