Incantation of Frida K.: Amazon.de: Kate Braverman: Englische Bücher

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Painter Frida Kahlo's mythic and unnerving self-portraits led to her beatification as a martyr to pain, art, and sexism. Already the subject of a novel by Barbara Mujica (frida, 2001), she has now inspired Braverman, a piercingly lyric and psychologically acute writer as bold in her excavation of the dark side of womanhood as Kahlo herself. The author of such entrancing works as Small Craft Warnings (1998), Braverman inhabits Kahlo's ravaged body and drug-drenched mind as the 46-year-old warrior-painter lies on her deathbed, finally succumbing to the horrendous injuries she sustained as a teenager in a surreal bus-trolley accident. By turns tormented and cajoled by her egocentric husband, muralist Diego Rivera, Kahlo turns inward, replaying troubling scenes real and imagined from her tragic life. So deeply immersed is Braverman in Kahlo's electrifying paintings, she has absorbed their colors, imagery, and spirit, and translates them into an anguished yet sublime fever dream in which the sorrows of the caustic, gifted, and omnivorous Kahlo --adorned with flowers, long skirts, corsets supporting her shattered spine, and a perpetually burning cigarette--become the sufferings of every wounded woman. Donna Seaman
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Braverman's literary genius shines here as she takes on the voice of Frida Kahlo, which emerges with the luminous and haunting tone one would imagine the late Mexican artist would have. Gleaning inspiration from Kahlo's paintings, as well as her afflicted romance with Diego Rivera, Braverman (Lithium for Medea) clearly understands the tortured existence of the artist. She evokes the physical and emotional strain that Kahlo struggled with since an accident at age 17 and that ultimately defined who she became as a human and an artist. Her life is told through short, poetic sentences, creating an erratic tone, which, although unnerving, lends credibility to the prose. It is clear that Braverman has done her homework, no doubt studying Kahlo's letters and diaries, which have been published in the past ten years. Indeed, lines such as "I've transcended canvas....I'm working in a region of absence" seem to spill directly from Kahlo herself, showing that Braverman's talent lies not only with language but with imagination. Although this is a tumultuous and disturbing story, it is a refreshing reminder that Kahlo is emerging as an important and recognizable figure in the Surrealist movement apart from her husband. Throughout, Braverman achieves for Kahlo what Kahlo could never fully achieve for herself: recognition as an artist in her own right and not just Rivera's pretty Mexican wife. Rachel Collins, "Library Journal"
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Beauty vs Biography 8. April 2002

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Kate Braverman has once again enveloped us with her magical and incantatory prose poetry. This book uses the last day of Frida's life to explode and explore human conciousness and continue Braverman's fight for equality for women artists. This book has about as much to do with the real life of Frida K. as Blood Meridian has to do with the real life of Buffalo Bill. This is a book of distilled essence and a meditation by one great female artist on another. If you are looking for a biography, look elsewhere. If you are looking for a feast of the mind, a wild hallucinatory ride, and some of the finest poetic prose since Plath then this is your book. 'Bravermaniacs' don't have to be told what awaits them. For the rest of us, perhaps it is time to take a break from the linear novel and return to the use of fiction to explore the inner world that films simply can't deliver. I found the Incantation of Frida K. to be both beautiful and horrifying, an unforgetable experience and a book not to be missed by serious readers.

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The Incantations of Frida K. 17. Mai 2002

This book has powers. If you are drawn to exquisite poetic imagery this book will reward you not only with the beauty and originality of it's language but with the success with which it invokes the drama, passion, pain and perception of its subject, Frida Kahlo.

Frida's story, in Kate Braverman's words, is a story of a human being who is fated to endure a life of severe and chronic physical and psychological damage, who is blessed and cursed with an extremely acute sensibility and the talent and drive to express it to the eyes and nerves of the world through her canvasses. Her work has been classified as Surrealist. She refused this label. She stated she was painting reality as she knew it. Morphine, Opium and Demoral were part of that reality and were what it took to keep physical pain down and her perceptions and her artistic production up. Medical and surgical treatments have come along way in the last 50 years.

The book also explores Frida's relationship with Diego Riviera, who was the centerpiece of her painful fate. He physically and psychologically abused her, humiliated her and used her originality and style to pioneer the corporate branding concept in marketing, while at the same time denigrating her vastly superior talent.(Who's the footnote now, Diego?}.

Kate Braverman has given us a Frida who can be seen , felt, admired, applauded and loved within and beyond the context of her paintings. Read the paintings, see the book.

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Braverman =Intelligence 15. Mai 2002

This novel combines all the beauty of a poem, and all the acumen of one artist to another. Braverman's fictional rendering of Kahlo finally gives a materiality of the artist rather than the myth. For this alone, Braverman is singular in her audacity and vision.

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