The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington

by Leonora Carrington

Other authorsKathryn Davis (Introduction)
Paperback, 2017

Status

Available

Call number

PR6053.A6965

Publication

Dorothy, a publishing project (2017), Edition: Translation, 232 pages

Description

"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. With a startling range of styles, subjects, and even languages (many of the stories are translated from French or Spanish), this collection captures the genius and irrepressible spirit of an amazing artist's life."--Page 4 of cover.… (more)

User reviews

LibraryThing member mrgan
A collection of entertaining short stories from a surrealist painter. They have a Kafkaesque quality, accepting dream logic without much surprise. Any one story is fun, though as an anthology, it gets repetitive. Pick it up and read a story here, a story there.
LibraryThing member le.vert.galant
Some of the most remarkable short stories I've ever read: surrealistic fairy tales that are atmospheric, eerie, and sublime. The images are fantastic, word-paintings of strange worlds where animals speak, the unspeakable is eaten, and characters transform from people, to animals, to corpses and
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other inanimate objects. A feast to be sipped and savored!
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LibraryThing member over.the.edge
The Complete Stories of Leonara Carrington
by Leonara Carrington
Translated from French by Katherine Talbot
Translated from Spanish by Anthony Kerrigan
2017
Dorothy, a publishing project
5.0/5.0

Carringtons novels have come to epitomize surrealism,and really there is no other way to explain this
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brilliant, strange and absorbing stories. This includes all her short stories, some a bit autobiographical, but all of them haunting. I first found her through her surreal art work. Amazing.

Favorites include:

The Debutante

A Man In Love

The Three Hunters

White Rabbits
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Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2017

Physical description

232 p.; 6.96 inches

ISBN

0997366648 / 9780997366648
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