{"product_id":"the-stone-door-isbn-9781681378947","title":"The Stone Door","description":"\u003cb\u003eAncient Mesopotamia, the Zodiac, and the land of the dead feature in this wildly surrealistic adventure story—Leonora Carrington’s revolutionary first novel, long out of print.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Stone Door\u003c\/i\u003e is an omen, an incantation, and an adventure story rolled into one. Built in layers like a puzzle box, it is the tale of two people, of love and the Zodiac and the Kabbalah, of Transylvania and Mesopotamia converging at the Caucasus, of a mad Hungarian King named Böles Kilary and of a woman’s discovery of an initiatory code that leads to a Cyclopean obstacle, to love, self and awareness, to the great stone door of Kescke and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWritten at the end of World War II but not published until 1977 and long unavailable, \u003ci\u003eThe Stone Door\u003c\/i\u003e is at once a celebration of the union of the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington and her husband, the Hungarian-born photographer Chiki Weisz, and an argument for the unification of the male and the female as a means of liberating the human race.“[Carrington’s] work with its vibrant dehumanized animals, its mythic universality, and mysterious lucidity remains a marvel. She was and remains forever rad.” —Joy Williams, \u003ci\u003eBook Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The magically unfolding fable tells of Zacharias, a twentieth-century Hungarian Jew who is destined to voyage beyond the boundaries of time to the shores of ancient Mesopotamia, and open the great stone door of the mountain Kescke to release his true love. This modern fairy tale burns with passion and purpose.∏ —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Stone Door\u003c\/i\u003e is arguably Carrington’s most probing, and also perhaps the most earnest, fictional inquiry into alternative modes of representation.... In true surrealist fashion, the novel calls both for a social revolution and a psychological one.” —Anna Watz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the reasons that I love \u003ci\u003eThe Stone Door\u003c\/i\u003e is its duality of the mystical and the earthly at the same time. When I read this work, I’m traveling through these places and landscapes. The elements. Carrington includes everything, and that’s what I’m drawn to in her work. It’s spiritual, it’s political, it’s life-affirming.” —Stacy Klein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Carrington's novella, \u003ci\u003eThe Stone Door\u003c\/i\u003e, tells the story of a quest undertaken by the boy, Zacharias, to enter the country of the Dead, and reads like a hashish dream.... [\u003ci\u003eThe Stone Door\u003c\/i\u003e] may send the surrealists among us into backflips.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeonora Carrington\u003c\/b\u003e (1917–2011) was born in Lancashire, England, to an industrialist father and an Irish mother. She was raised on fantastical folktales told to her by her Irish nanny at her family’s estate, Crookhey Hall. A renowned artist as well as a writer, she lived a majority of her life in Mexico City, moving in a circle of like-minded artists that included Remedios Varo and Alejandro Jodorowsky. Her surrealistic paintings and sculptures have been hosted in galleries and museums all over the world. A novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Hearing Trumpet\u003c\/i\u003e; a memoir of madness, \u003ci\u003eDown Below\u003c\/i\u003e; and an illustrated group of stories for children, \u003ci\u003eThe Milk of Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e, are all available from New York Review Books.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eGabriel Weisz Carrington\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, playwright, theatre researcher and  comparative literature researcher. He collaborated with Leonora  Carrington in a few creative endeavours; a joint project with the \u003ci\u003eDark Book\u003c\/i\u003e,  building sets for theatre, cinema and assisting Leonora with a few  sculptures. He holds a doctorate in Comparative Literature and is a  professor of Comparative Literature at Universidad Autónoma de México.  He is the first-born son of Leonora.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnna Watz\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor (Docent) of English Literature. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eAngela Carter and Surrealism: 'A Feminist Libertarian Aesthetic'\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eA History of the Surrealist Novel\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSurrealist Women's Writing: A Critical Exploration\u003c\/i\u003e. Her second monograph, \u003ci\u003eSurrealism and Feminine Difference\u003c\/i\u003e, is forthcoming from Oxford University Press.","brand":"NYRB Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300324561125,"sku":"NP9781681378947","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781681378947.jpg?v=1767741662","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-stone-door-isbn-9781681378947","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}