ABSTRACT
Starting from an examination of Leonora Carrington’s Down Below (1944), a brief account of her schizophrenic episode during the Second World War, this chapter reads that memoir in relation its context and Carrington’s novel The Hearing Trumpet (1974) together with some of Carrington’s key artworks from the time. In doing so, it elaborates on the biography/fiction/autobiography interplay by exploring the relationship between autobiography and autopathography in the context of Surrealism’s sexual politics.
