First discovered, celebrated and published by the Surrealists at the age of 14 (they declared her the new Alice), Gisele Prassinos quickly found herself established in the literary world as a fount of automatic tales freighted with transgressive humor and a pervading sense of threatened feminine identity.
Gisele Prassinos' tone is unique, claimed Andre Breton, all the poets are jealous of it.
Swift lowers his eyes, Sade shuts his candy box.
The Arthritic Grasshopper and Other Tales.
Wakefield Press The arthritic grasshopper: collected stories, 1934--1944, paperback/gisele prassinos
