Szürrealizmus és magyar zsidó alkímia
Surrealism and Hungarian Jewish alchemy

Summary/Abstract: The Stone Door, a novel by the surrealist painter-writer-sculptor-illustrator Leonora Carrington, written in the mid-1940s but not published until the 1970s, is a narratively complex work rich in alchemical, kabbalistic, biblical and mythic symbolism, and one of the movement’s most outstanding works. The author conceived it as a love gift to his partner, known by his pseudonym, Chiki, originally Emerico (Imre) Weisz, as a work whose characters are, in a certain way, doubles of them. The theme and motifs of The Stone Door also refer to her future husband’s Jewish roots, as well as to his Hungarian origins. By weaving all this together, Carrington creates a particular narratological-motivational and linguistic network, at the same time, the book, as a late avant-garde novel by a female author, is often associated with the concerns of second-generation (poststructuralist) feminist criticism.

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