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The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
by Leonora Carrington
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“Complete Stories, a collection of Carrington’s published and unpublished short stories—many newly translated from their original French and Spanish—is a terrific introduction to her bizarre, dreamlike worlds.” —Carmen Maria Machado, NPR Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniously brought together than in the works of short fiction she wrote throughout her life. Published to coincide with the centennial of her birth, The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington collects for the first time all of her stories, including several never before seen in print.…
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"This collection of the late surrealist artist Leonora Carrington’s published and unpublished short stories – many newly translated from their original French and Spanish – is a terrific introduction to her bizarre, dreamlike worlds.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."