DIE FLUCHT IN DIE GEISTESKRANKHEIT IM UNICA ZÜRN’S ROMAN MANN IM JASMIN (1977). UNICA ZÜRN: ENGE VERFLECHTUNG VON LEBEN UND WERK
DIE FLUCHT IN DIE GEISTESKRANKHEIT IM UNICA ZÜRN’S ROMAN MANN IM JASMIN (1977). UNICA ZÜRN: ENGE VERFLECHTUNG VON LEBEN UND WERK

Summary/Abstract: The German writer Unica Zürn is a vivid example of a writer that became known from depicting in her novels her own experience as a mental patient. At the beginning of the 1960s she was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, and as a follow-up she was committed to numerous psychiatric clinics. Her existence was constantly threatened by her schizophrenic crises, usually started by the break-up from the well-known artist and photographer Hans Bellmer. Unica Zürnřs novel Der Mann im Jasmin (Jasmine Man) highlights madness in antithesis to plain day to day reality, depicted in relation to hallucinations that raise in the reader fascination and stupor at the same time.

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