{"product_id":"the-stone-door-paperback","title":"The Stone Door - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLeonora Carrington\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eGabriel Weisz Carrington\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by), \u003cb\u003eAnna Watz\u003c\/b\u003e (Afterword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAncient Mesopotamia, the Zodiac, and the land of the dead feature in this wildly surrealistic adventure story--Leonora Carrington's revolutionary second novel, long out of print.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 7.91 x 5.07 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 22, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44383142314086,"sku":"9781681378947","price":23.59,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/LTh9-H2lzQ9781681378947.webp?v=1769032222","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/the-stone-door-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}