num_pages: 296
description: In The Secret the Polish artist Klimowski has produced bizarre and disturbing novel-without-words an unsettling psychological mystery revealed in a sequence of 300 drawings and montages. A young woman and her two children vanish from their city apartment late at night leaving a distraught husband to follow a nightmarish trail of signs and images left by their abductors. There is something alarming and almost occult in the force at work in the background dominated by a giant camera obscura. As in Klimowski's earlier work The Depository the metamorphosis of daily reality into a dark and sinister other-word of human forms and mutant creatures is gripping. The Secret takes Klimowski into ambitious new territory and projects (as in a silent movie) very powerful images of urban neurosis ambivslance and erotism.
language: English
title: The Secret
publisher: Faber and Faber