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Valerie And Her Week Of Wonders harada Serving as Gaustine’s assistantWritten in 1935 during the height of Czech Surrealism but not published until a decade later, Valerie and Her Week of Wonders is a strange and erotic fable tracing a young girls unsettling passage into womanhood, set in motion by her first menstruation. Drawing on the Gothic traditionMatthew Lewiss The Monk, the Marquis de Sades Justine, K. H. Mchas May, and F. W. Murnaus NosferatuNezval weaves a phantasmagoric tale using the melodramatic tone of pulp