STONE DOOR (NYRB CLASSICS) (PB)

Written at the end of World War II but not published until 1977, Leonora Carrington's revolutionary second novel is 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.