Name: Forgotten Journey
SKU: 52060344
Price: 595.00 TWD
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Author: Silvina Ocampo
ISBN: 9780872867727

Type

Physical Book

Author

Silvina Ocampo

Publisher

City Lights Publishers

Year

2019

Language

English

Pages

144

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9780872867727

Synopsis "Forgotten Journey "

Delicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult imbalances of love."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"Through these fantastical tales the narrator explores the life of young girls, their friendships, their inner solitudes, as well as the constant quest to understand the duality of life and the imagination."—Marjorie Agosin, author of I Lived On Butterfly Hill"Ocampo inhabits and brings to life a hyper-real, surreal, and resolutely feminine world ruled by unapologetic beauty and pervading sadness."—Andrei Codrescu, author of No Time Like Now: New Poems

Silvina Ocampo

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From a young age, she studied drawing and painting; one of her teachers was Giorgio De Chirico. She published her first book, Forgotten Journey, in 1937. In 1940, she married Adolfo Bioy Casares and that same year published, in collaboration with him and Jorge Luis Borges, an emblematic Anthology of Fantastic Literature. Several of her stories and poems appeared in the magazine Sur, which was directed by her sister Victoria. Among her more than twenty published works are Enumeration of the Homeland (poems), Those Who Love, Hate (detective novel, in collaboration with Bioy), Irene's Autobiography (stories), Poems of Desperate Love (poetry), The Traitors (theater, in collaboration with J. R. Wilcock) and Cornelia in Front of the Mirror (stories)

In 1999, Emecé gathered for the first time her Complete Stories in two volumes and in 2000 did the same with her Complete Poetry, also in two volumes. The publisher also released Unpublished and Scattered Poetry (2000) and Essential Anthology (2001)

She received the Municipal Poetry Prize and the National Poetry Prize. Her growing prestige, the relevance of her published work, and the emergence of valuable unpublished texts contribute to affirming her as an indispensable author of the Argentine canon.

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