The hundred headless woman =

Max Ernst

first published 1981 G. Braziller, 1981 325 pages

The Hundred Headless Woman is Ernst's first collage novel. It features a loosely narrative sequence of uncanny Surrealist collages, made by cutting up and reassembling nineteenth-century illustrations, accompanied by Ernst's equally strange captions. Ernst's French title, La Femme 100 têtes, is a double entendre; when read aloud it can be understood as either "the hundred-headed woman" or "the headless woman." Along...

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Hundred Headless Woman edition · 2018 · Dover Publications, Incorporated · 320 pages · 9780486819112
Hundred Headless Woman edition · 2017 · Dover Publications, Incorporated · 9780486825977
The hundred headless woman = edition · 1981 · G. Braziller · 325 pages

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