MARTHA'S OPÉRA

by Valentine Penrose

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First edition

Paris: Fontaine, 1946. Scarce, lovely first edition of Penrose's neo-gothic epistolary novella. Near fine. Item #44918 A brief but remarkable text by the Surrealist collage artist and poet. Into the overtly gothic atmosphere of MARTHA'S OPERA, Penrose places an explicitly erotic relationship between two doomed lovers, Emily and Rubia: incarcerated and guarded by jealous male relatives who misapprehend the objects of their

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