The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington

"This collection of the late surrealist artist Leonora Carrington’s published and unpublished short stories – many newly translated from their original French and Spanish – is a terrific introduction to her bizarre, dreamlike worlds. These stories have the distinct affect of fairy tales – intuitive logic that carries the reader from one moment to the next without a sense of cause-and-effect, as far away from psychological realism as possible. A woman undresses down to her skeleton; a witch gives birth to a litter of boars and kills all but the one that most resembles its father – and all in Carrington’s stripped-down prose. Complete Stories is an unusual but singular delight."

"She's folkloric and supernatural and free. I was studying a book of her paintings recently, enchanted by them all over again."