Name: The Topless Tower
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Author: Silvina Ocampo

Type

Physical Book

Author

Silvina Ocampo

Introduction by

Marian Womack

Translated by

James Womack

Publisher

Nevsky Prospects S.L.

Language

English

Pages

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

18x13x0.5 cm

Weight

0.10 kg.

ISBN13

9781916232143

Synopsis "The Topless Tower"

The Topless Tower is Silvina Ocampo's most imaginative work, one which takes the canon of Western fantasy and turns it on its head. A cross between Alice in Wonderland and the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges, it packs a whole fantastical world into a swift fever-dream narrative. The efforts of Leandro to escape the dreamlike tower where he has been spirited by the Devil are a key text of the South American surrealist movement.

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 The publisher also released Unpublished and Scattered Poetry (2000) and Essential Anthology (2001)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 Her growing prestige, the relevance of her published work, and the emergence of valuable unpublished texts contribute to affirming her as an indispensable author of the Argentine canon.

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