Silvina Ocampo

Lumen recupera una voz fundamental: una de las mejores cuentistas del siglo XX en espa ol. «Un volumen de cuentos que revela a una autora «con un talento magn tico, una mujer con un universo propio muy nico, sumamente complejo, oscuro y luminoso a la vez --Leila Guerriero «Una de las escritoras m s talentosas y extra as de la literatura en espa ol. --Mariana Enriquez Publicado por primera vez en 1948, Autobiograf a de Irene cumple las promesas de la mejor literatura: una narraci n di fana, un estilo de econ mica precisi n, el vuelo de la imaginaci n a sus anchas. En estos cinco cuentos, que transcurren en escenarios tan diversos como la Roma antigua, una ciudad de China o el campo de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Silvina Ocampo explora la identidad, la mentira, el rencor, la muerte, la melancol a, los sue os, las certidumbres e incertidumbres acerca de lo que ocurri o no ocurri a menudo, las l neas tem ticas se confunden en la calma y un inusitado esplendor comparece con toda su violencia. La fascinaci n que el m s extenso de los relatos, «El impostor , ha despertado en guionistas y directores de cine no es casual: esta historia poblada de claves equ vocas nos precipita en una enso aci n diurna donde la realidad y sus artificios establecen una fantasmagor a inolvidable. Esta nueva edici n incluye el argumento in dito que la autora escribi para una versi n cinematogr fica, nunca realizada, de esa ambigua nouvelle. En el 120. aniversario de su nacimiento, Lumen recupera este volumen de cuentos imprescindible de una escritora nica e inclasificable, admirada por Borges, Pizarnik y Cort zar, que se mantuvo como el gran secreto de la literatura latinoamericana. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION In this volume, Lumen rescues the voice of one of the twentieth century's best storytellers in the Spanish language. The stories reveal an author with "a compelling talent, a woman who inhabits a complex world, dark and luminous at the same time" (Leila Guerriero). "One of the strangest and most talented writers in Spanish literature" (Mariana Enriquez). Published for the first time in 1948, Autobiography of Irene fulfills the promises of the best literature: a diaphanous narrative and precise style that give full flight to the imagination. In the five stories in this collection, set in locations as diverse as Ancient Rome, a city in China, and a rural Buenos Aires province, Silvina Ocampo explores identity, lies, rancor, death, melancholy, dreams, certainty and uncertainty. The storylines often blur until hitting home with an unexpected splendor. The fascination that the longest story, The Impostor, has awakened in scriptwriters and filmmakers isn't surprising: Scattered with false clues, the story plunges readers into a daydream where reality and its artifices create an unforgettable phantasmagoria. This new edition includes the never-before-published plot the author wrote for an unrealized film version of this ambiguous novella. On the 120th anniversary of Ocampo's birth, Lumen brings a new generation of readers the work of a unique and uncategorizable author who was admired by Borges, Pizarnik and Cort zar but remains one of the great secrets of Latin American literature.

Lumen recupera una voz fundamental: «Una de las escritoras m s talentosas y extra as de la literatura en espa ol (Mariana Enriquez). La novela que la autora consider siempre su mejor obra. Una mujer se inclina sobre la baranda de un transatl ntico para recoger un broche y cae accidentalmente por la borda. Mientras el barco se aleja, hace una promesa a Santa Rita, la «abogada de lo imposible si logra salvarse, escribir la historia de su vida. Personas y lugares desfilan ante sus ojos formando un «diccionario de recuerdos a menudo crueles o perturbadores, mientras el mar la rodea con toda su furia. Poco a poco, la imaginaci n de la n ufraga empieza a jugar con esas im genes del pasado como si quisiera distraerla de los peligros que la acechan, hasta que las fronteras entre lo vivido y lo so ado se desdibujan en una narraci n que va torn ndose cada vez m s exuberante, m s po tica, a medida que se vislumbra el final. Escrita a comienzos de los sesenta y sometida a varias reescrituras durante las d cadas siguientes, esta «novela fantasmag rica permaneci in dita envida de su autora. Publicada por primera vez en 2011, La promesa deslumbra por su audacia formal, por las invenciones de su trama y por la prosa siempre inspirada de Silvina Ocampo. En el 120. aniversario de su nacimiento, Lumen recupera la ltima novela que escribi esta escritora nica e inclasificable, admirada por Borges, Pizarnik y Cort zar, que se mantuvo como el gran secreto de la literatura latinoamericana. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION On the 120th anniversary of her birth, Lumen recovers the last novel written by this unique and unclassifiable writer who was admired by Borges, Pizarnik, and Cort zar, the great secret of Latin American literature. The novel the author considered her best work. A dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity. A woman traveling on a transatlantic ship has fallen overboard. Adrift at sea, she makes a promise to Saint Rita, "arbiter of the impossible," that if she survives, she will write her life story. As she drifts, she wonders what she might include in the story of her life--a repertoire of miracles, threats, and people parade tumultuously through her mind. Little by little, her imagination begins to commandeer her memories, escaping the structures of realism. Translated into English for the very first time, The Promise showcases Silvina Ocampo at her most feminist, idiosyncratic and subversive. Ocampo worked quietly to perfect this novella over the course of twenty-five years, nearly up until the time of her death in 1993. Kirkus Reviews calls The Promise one of the Best Books of Fiction, and Literature in Translation of the year Voted LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2019

Silvina Ocampo:(1903-1993) anses for at være en af Argentinas største kvindelige forfattere. Hun har udgivet digte og noveller og skrev i den for argentinsk litteratur så typiske fantastiske genre. Hun voksede op i en meget velhavende familie og blev gift med forfatteren Adolfo Bioy Casares. Parret var nære venner med Argentinas nok mest berømte forfatter Jorge Luis Borges, og de udgav sammen med ham en antologi over fantastisk litteratur. Cornelia foran spejlet: Denne novellesamling blev Silvina Ocampos sidste bog. Titelhistorien er en dramatiseret dialog, der foregår i et drømmeagtigt univers, hvor Cornelia fører en dialog med sit spejlbillede. I bogen er der også et par digte, og resten er noveller. Teksterne bærer præg af forfatterindens høje alder med refleksioner over liv og død. Der er mange tilbageblik til barndommen og ofte med en humoristisk vinkling.

Whimsical and sinister, each story by Silvina Ocampo is like a knife of spun sugar that can still pierce between your ribs. A thief breaks into the house of a psychic with disastrous results, a bride has her personality subsumed by the previous occupant of her home, and two men switch destinies for a change of pace. The Impostor offers a comprehensive collection from one of the twentieth century's great forgotten woman writers. Here are tales of doubles and living dolls, angels and demons, a beautiful seer who writes the autobiography of her own death, and much else that is mad, sublime, and delicious. With an array spanning the length of Ocampo's career, these haunting stories are among the world's strangest and best.

"The world is ready for her blend of insane Angela Carter with the originality of Clarice Lispector."—Mariana Enriquez, LitHubDelicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult imbalances of love." Both her debut story collection, Forgotten Journey, and her only novel, The Promise, are strikingly 20th-century texts, written in a high-modernist mode rarely found in contemporary fiction."—Lily Meyer, NPR"Silvina Ocampo is one of our best writers. Her stories have no equal in our literature."––Jorge Luis Borges"I don't know of another writer who better captures the magic inside everyday rituals, the forbidden or hidden face that our mirrors don't show us."—Italo Calvino"These two newly translated books could make her a rediscovery on par with Clarice Lispector. . . . there has never been another voice like hers."—John Freeman, Executive Editor, LitHub" . . . it is for the precise and terrible beauty of her sentences that this book should be read. A masterpiece of midcentury modernist literature triumphantly translated into our times."—Publishers Weekly * Starred Review"Ocampo is beyond great—she is necessary."—Hernan Diaz, author of In the Distance and Associate Director of the Hispanic Institute at Columbia University "Like William Blake, Ocampo's first voice was that of a visual artist; in her writing she retains the will to unveil immaterial so that we might at least look at it if not touch it."—Helen Oyeyemi, author of Gingerbread"Ocampo is a legend of Argentinian literature, and this collection of her short stories brings some of her most recondite and mysterious works to the English-speaking world. . . . This collection is an ideal introduction to a beguiling body of work."—Publishers WeeklyThis collection of 28 short stories, first published in 1937 and now in English translation for the first time, introduced readers to one of Argentina's most original and iconic authors. With this, her fiction debut, poet Silvina Ocampo initiated a personal, idiosyncratic exploration of the politics of memory, a theme to which she would return again and again over the course of her unconventional life and productive career. Praise for Forgotten Journey:"Ocampo is one of those rare writers who seems to write fiction almost offhandedly, but to still somehow do more in four or five pages than most writers do in twenty. Before you know it, the seemingly mundane has bared its surreal teeth and has you cornered."—Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of the World: Stories"The Southern Cone queen of the short-story, Ocampo displays all her mastery in Forgotten Journey. After finishing the book, you only want more."—Gabriela Alemán, author of Poso Wells"Silvina Ocampo's fiction is wondrous, heart-piercing, and fiercely strange. Her fabulism is as charming as Borges’s. Her restless sense of invention foregrounds the brilliant feminist work of writers like Clarice Lispector and Samanta Schweblin. It’s thrilling to have work of this magnitude finally translated into English, head spinning and thrilling."—Alyson Hagy, author of Scribe

Kirkus Reviews calls The Promise one of the Best Books of Fiction, and of Literature in Translation, of the year!* Voted one of the Big Fall Books from Indies by Publishers Weekly & LitHub's Most Anticipated Books of 2019"The world is ready for her blend of insane Angela Carter with the originality of Clarice Lispector."—Mariana Enriquez, LitHub"Both her debut story collection, Forgotten Journey, and her only novel, The Promise, are strikingly 20th-century texts, written in a high-modernist mode rarely found in contemporary fiction."—Lily Meyer, NPR"Silvina Ocampo is the next writer you should be reading."—Michael SilverblattA dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity." Of all the words that could define her, the most accurate is, I think, ingenious."—Jorge Luis Borges"I don't know of another writer who better captures the magic inside everyday rituals, the forbidden or hidden face that our mirrors don't show us."—Italo Calvino"Few writers have an eye for the small horrors of everyday life; fewer still see the everyday marvelous. Other than Silvina Ocampo, I cannot think of a single writer who, at any time in any language, has chronicled both with such wise and elegant humor."—Alberto Manguel"Art is the cure for death. A seminal work by an underread master. Required for all students of the human condition."—Starred Review, Kirkus Reviews"This haunting and vital final work from Ocampo, her only novel, is about a woman's life flashing before her eyes when she's stranded in the ocean. . . . the book’s true power is its depiction of the strength of the mind and the necessity of storytelling, which for the narrator is literally staving off death. Ocampo’s portrait of one woman’s interior life is forceful and full of hope."—Gabe Habash, Starred Review, Publishers Weekly"Ocampo is beyond great—she is necessary."—Hernan Diaz, author of In the Distance "I don't know of another writer who better captures the magic inside everyday rituals, the forbidden or hidden face that our mirrors don't show us."—Italo Calvino"These two newly translated books could make her a rediscovery on par with Clarice Lispector. . . . there has never been another voice like hers."—John Freeman, Executive Editor, LitHub"Like William Blake, Ocampo's first voice was that of a visual artist; in her writing she retains the will to unveil immaterial so that we might at least look at it if not touch it."—Helen Oyeyemi, author of GingerbreadA woman traveling on a transatlantic ship has fallen overboard. Adrift at sea, she makes a promise to Saint Rita, "arbiter of the impossible," that if she survives, she will write her life story. As she drifts, she wonders what she might include in the story of her life—a repertoire of miracles, threats, and people parade tumultuously through her mind. Little by little, her imagination begins to commandeer her memories, escaping the strictures of realism. Translated into English for the very first time, The Promise showcases Silvina Ocampo at her most feminist, idiosyncratic and subversive. Ocampo worked quietly to perfect this novella over the course of twenty-five years, nearly up until the time of her death in 1993.

Tretton noveller om förvandlingar, flickor och döden. Om att åldras och om att minnas. Om jaguarer, tigrar och andra katter. Om självmord, galenskap och havet. Om spöken och handarbete. Om brev och dagböcker. Om drömmar och verklighet. Om kärlek. Och om Buenos Aires. Silvina Ocampo var en argentinsk författare och poet. Novellerna i den här samlingen sträcker sig från debuten 1937 fram till 1988 och är den första boken av Ocampo som ges ut på svenska. *** Silvina Ocampo (1903–1993) debuterade 1937, och fram till 1988 publicerade hon en mängd verk – övervägande diktsamlingar, men också noveller och barnböcker. Hon översatte även bland annat författare som Emily Dickinson och Edgar Allan Poe. Hennes syster Victoria Ocampo drev den berömda litteraturtidskriften och förlaget Sur där många av Ocampos verk publicerades. Tillsammans med sin make Adolfo Bioy Casares skrev hon också romanen Los que aman, odian från 1946. I tjugoårsåldern studerade Ocampo måleri i Paris, men hon bodde större delen av sitt liv i Buenos Aires. 2014 kom en uppmärksammad biografi över hennes liv, La hermana menor, skriven av författaren Mariana Enriquez.

An NYRB Classics Original Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great masters of the story and the novella. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels and demons, a marble statue of a winged horse that speaks, a beautiful seer who writes the autobiography of her own death, a lapdog who records the dreams of an old woman, a suicidal romance, and much else that is incredible, mad, sublime, and delicious. Italo Calvino has written that no other writer "better captures the magic inside everyday rituals, the forbidden or hidden face that our mirrors don't show us." Jorge Luis Borges flatly declared, "Silvina Ocampo is one of our best writers. Her stories have no equal in our literature." Dark, gothic, fantastic, and grotesque, these haunting stories are among the world's most individual and finest.

Silvina Ocampo possessed her own special enchantment as a poet, and only now is her extraordinary poetic achievement becoming more widely recognized beyond Latin America. Remarkably, this is the first collection of Ocampo's poetry to appear in English. From her early sonnets on the native Argentine landscape, to her meditations on love's travails, to her explorations of the kinship between plant and animal realms, to her clairvoyant inquiries into history and myth and memory, readers will find the full range of Ocampo's "metaphysical lyricism" (The Independent) represented in this groundbreaking edition.

On the arrival of a mysterious stranger laden with paintings, Leandro finds his quiet life disrupted instantly and mysteriously. He awakens locked in a windowless room in a topless tower, the subject of one of the stranger's eerie paintings. His childish voice draws the reader into a mythical world full of imaginary beings. Basking in her friendship with literary luminaries such as Italo Calvino and Borges, Argentine poet and author Silvina Ocampo is among the foremost figures in modern South American literature. Heavily influenced by nonsense literature such as Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland and the surrealist movement in South America, The Topless Tower, features all the typical hallmarks of Ocampo's fantastical writing. With subtle inflections of language and tremendous displays of imagination running riot, Ocampo's writing is beautifully translated by James Womack.