Pictures of a childhood : sixty-six watercolors and an essay
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TextNew York, NY Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1st ed., c1986Description: ix, 161p.; ill. (col); appendixContent type: - text
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Original German ed. pub. as Bilder einer Kindheit, c1985 by Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt am Main.
Preface. Childhood and creativity. Sixty-six watercolors: pictures of a childhood
'I could have devoted myself exclusively to my writing, and it would have protected me from the fears that were sometimes awakened in me by the content of the pictures I painted. But I didn't want to let it go at that. I wanted to know what lay behind the dark curtain concealing my forgotten past, wanted to find out precisely what had happened during the period for which I had no memories....It would have been a betrayal of my self and my experience if I had now ignored the content to which my hand was giving form with the aid of colors or had attributed it simply to fantasy, without seriously searching for its roots in reality.' --Preface, pp. 3-4
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