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Annelies
Štrba
‘… I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me
ever after, and changed my ideas: they’ve gone through
and through me, like wine through water, and altered the
colour of my mind. And this is one: I’m going to tell it —
but take care not to smile at any part of it.’
‘If I were in heaven, Nelly, I should be extremely miserable.’
‘Because you are not fit to go there,’ I answered.
‘All sinners would be miserable in heaven.’
‘But it is not for that. I dreamt once that I was there.’
‘Oh! Don’t, Miss Catherine!’ I cried. ‘We’re dismal enough
without conjuring up ghosts and visions to perplex us.
Come, come, be merry and like yourself! Look at little
Hareton! he’s dreaming nothing dreary. How sweetly he
smiles in his sleep!’
‘Yes; and how sweetly his father curses in his solitude!
You remember him, I dare say, when he was just such
another as that chubby thing:nearly as young and
innocent. However, Nelly, I shall oblige you to listen:
it’s not long: and I’ve no power to be merry tonight.’
‘I won’t hear it, I won’t hear it!’ I repeated, hastily.
‘I tell you I won’t harken to your dreams, Miss Catherine!
I’ll go to bed,’ I interrupted again.
She laughed, and held me down; for I made a motion to
leave my chair.
‘This is nothing,’ cried she: ‘I was only going to say that
heaven did not seem to be my home; and I broke my
heart with weeping to come back to earth; and the angels
were so angry that they flung me out into the middle of
the heath on top of Wuthering Heights; where I woke
sobbing for joy…
I was superstitious about dreams then, and still am; and
Catherine had an unusual gloom in her aspect, that made
me dread something from which I might shape a prophecy,
and foresee a fearful catastrophe. She was vexed, but she
did not proceed. Apparently taking up another subject,
she recommended in a short time.
Emily Brontë
Wuthering Heights
Chapter 9
High waving heather, ‘neath stormy blasts bending,
Midnight and moonlight and bright shining stars;
Darkness and glory rejoicingly blending,
Earth rising to heaven and heaven descending,
Man’s spirit away from its drear dungeon sending,
Bursting the fetters and breaking the bars.
All down the mountain sides, wild forests lending
One mighty voice to the life-giving wind;
Rivers their banks in the jubilee rending,
Fast through the valleys a reckless course wending,
Wider and deeper their waters extending,
Leaving a desolate desert behind.
Shining and lowering and swelling and dying,
Changing for ever from midnight to noon;
Roaring like thunder, like soft music sighing,
Shadows on shadows advancing and flying,
Lightning-bright flashes the deep gloom defying,
Coming as swiftly and fading as soon.
Emily Brontë
Annelies Štrba
Short-Biography
1947
Born in Zug, Switzerland
She lives in Richterswil and Amden
2008
The Brontë Parsonage Museum, Haworth (solo)
Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (solo)
Mussée de l’Elysée, Lausanne, Adolescents
2007
Jason McCoy Inc., New York (solo)
2006
‘In the Face of History, European Photographers in the 20th Century’, Barbican Centre, London
2005
‘Annelies Štrba’, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague (solo)
2004
Gemeente Museum, Den Haag (solo)
2003
NYIMA, Helmhaus Zürich (monografie/monograph)
2002
‘Claude Monet...bis zum digitalen Impressionismus’, Fondation Beyeler, Basel – Riehen
2001
‘Shades of Time’, Centre National de la Photographie, Paris (solo)
2000
Frith Street Gallery, London (solo)
Galerie EIGEN + ART, Berlin (solo)
1999
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
1998
Le Printemps de Cahors, France
Photographer’s Gallery, London (solo)
1997
‘Antechamber’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1996
‘Prospekt 96’ (Photographie), Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main
1995
‘Sourroundings’, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
1994
Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
‘The Epic + the Everyday. Contemporary Photographic Art’, Hayward Gallery, London
1993
Galerie EIGEN+ART, New York
1992
Galerie EIGEN+ART, Berlin (solo)
1990
‘Aschewiese’, Kunsthalle, Zürich
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