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Down Below
Leonora Carrington, Marina Warner (introduction)Leonora Carrington—later to become one of the twentieth century’s great painters of the weird, the alarming, & the wild—was a nineteen-year-old art student in London, beautiful & unapologetically rebellious. At a dinner party, she met the artist Max Ernst. The two fell in love & soon departed to live & paint together in a farmhouse in Provence. In 1940, the invading German army arrested Ernst & sent him to a concentration camp. Carrington suffered a psychotic break. She wept for hours. Her stomach became “the mirror of the earth”—of all worlds in a hostile universe—and she tried to purify the evil by compulsively vomiting.
As the Germans neared the south of France, a friend persuaded Carrington to flee to Spain. Facing the approach “of robots, of thoughtless, fleshless beings,” she packed a suitcase that bore on a brass plate the word Revelation. This was only the beginning of a journey into madness that was to end with Carrington confined in a mental institution, overwhelmed not only by her own terrible imaginings but by her doctor’s sadistic course of treatment.
In Down Below she describes her ordeal—in which the agonizing & the marvelous were equally combined—with a startling, almost impersonal precision & without a trace of self-pity. Like Daniel Paul Schreber’s Memoirs of My Nervous Illness, Down Below brings the hallucinatory logic of madness home.
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“Down Below is a troublesome book full of mystic reckonings & fragmented occlusions. As an autobiographical account of Carrington’s incarceration in a Spanish psychiatric hospital during the Second World War it is, as Marina Warner writes in her introduction, “an unsparing account of the experience of being insane.” — Matilda Bathurst, The Millions
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