Leonora Carrington

The Hearing Trumpet

The first complete collection of short fiction by the great surrealist artist and writer Leonora Carrington, published for her centennial.Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)&nbspwas 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 (several of the stories are translated from French or Spanish), The Complete Stories captures the genius and irrepressible spirit of an amazing artist's life.

The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington

92-year-old Marian Leatherby is given a hearing trumpet, then discovers that what her family is saying is that she is to be committed to an institution where the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos and the gateway to the underworld is open.

Leonora Carrington is perhaps the most enchanting of the women Surrealists. Theadaughter of Anglo Irish privilege, she broke free of her manor-house upbringingaand fled, first to art school, and then to the Continent. Though she is best knownaas a painter of the gothic fantastic, with a cult following and one-woman shows atamuseums around the world, her writing is no less striking. Down Belowadescribesathe events of 1940, when, after her longtime lover, artist Max Ernst was sent toaa concentration camp, Carrington was oled across the border of Knowledgeo andaimprisoned in a sanatorium for the insane. This powerful testament, reminiscent ofaCarrington's great novel The Hearing Trumpet, ranks with the work of Sylvia Plathaand Janet Frame in its raw evocation of madness.

Down Below

Jeanne Megnen

"As told to Jeanne Megnen, translated from the French by Victor Llona" --p. [54]

Ring for your maid, and when she comes in we'll pounce upon her and tear off her face. I'll wear her face tonight instead of mine.' Leonora Carrington was a surrealist painter who eloped with Max Ernst. Her stories are macabre and bizarre; they burrow their way into your subconscious.

The Skeleton's Holiday

La debuttante

Sirdas Trompet

Susan L. Aberth

Surrealism, Alchemy And Art

In English for the first time, a wild and darkly funny book that combines Surrealist painter Leonora Carringon's fantastical writing and illustrations for children The maverick surrealist Leonora Carrington was an extraordinary painter and storyteller who loved to make up stories and draw pictures for her children. She lived much of her life in Mexico, and her sons remember sitting in a big room whose walls were covered with images of wondrous creatures, towering mountains, and ferocious vegetation while she told fabulous and funny tales. That room was later whitewashed, but some of its wonders were preserved in the little notebook that Carrington called The Milk of Dreams. John, who has wings for ears, Humbert the Beautiful, an insufferable kid who befriends a crocodile and grows more insufferable yet, and the awesome Janzamajoria are all to be encountered in The Milk of Dreams, a book that is as unlikely, outrageous, and dreamy as dreams themselves.

The Milk of Dreams

Een fantastisch en mystiek avontuur, geplaatst tegen de achtergrond van een surrealistische wereld.

The Stone Door

The Debutante and Other Stories

Surreal stories deal with skeletons, hunters, travelers, strange neighbors, the aged, a masked ball, and mysterious ruins

The Seventh Horse, and Other Tales

Memorias de abajo

Gabriel Weisz Carrington

The Stone Door is an omen, an incantation, and an adventure story rolled into one. Built in layers like a puzzle box, it is the tale of two people, of love and the Zodiac and the Kabbalah, of Transylvania and Mesopotamia converging at the Caucasus, of a mad Hungarian King named Böles Kilary and of a woman’s discovery of an initiatory code that leads to a Cyclopean obstacle, to love, self and awareness, to the great stone door of Kescke and beyond.

Written at the end of World War II but not published until 1977 and long unavailable, The Stone Door is at once a celebration of the union of the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington and her husband, the Hungarian-born photographer Chiki Weisz, and an argument for the unification of the male and the female as a means of liberating the human race.

A corneta é um clássico da literatura fantástica, um marco do surrealismo e um livro extraordinário. A influência da mitologia celta, de criaturas míticas e mágicas, da cultura pré-hispânica e do tarô tornam a obra de Carrington subversiva e ousada, além de referência para artistas como Björk e Ali Smith. Com posfácio de Olga Tokarczuk. Aos noventa e dois anos e com a audição prejudicada, Marian Leatherby ganha uma corneta auditiva de sua melhor amiga. Com auxílio do aparelho, Marian descobre que seu filho, nora e neto têm planos soturnos: não suportando mais conviver sob o mesmo teto que ela, a família se articula para mandá-la a um asilo. Mas o lugar em questão não é uma instituição comum — os edifícios residenciais têm formato de bolo de aniversário, de cogumelos e de iglus. Lá, Marian embarca em uma jornada imprevisível, em que descobre fenômenos como a Freira Piscando, a Rainha Abelha, a entrada para um submundo e um assassinato misterioso. Considerada a última das mulheres surrealistas, a pintora, dramaturga e romancista Leonora Carrington foi uma artista audaciosa e revolucionária. A corneta é a grande chave de sua obra anárquica e repleta de alusões. "A leitura de A corneta nos liberta da triste realidade do cotidiano." — Luis Buñuel "Um dos romances mais originais, divertidos, agradáveis e visionários do século XX." — Ali Smith

A corneta

Kathryn Davis

"Cuentos completos de Leonora Carrington reúne los relatos publicados en La casa del miedo, El séptimo caballo e incluye tres cuentos inéditos en español: "El camello de arena", "El vuelo de Mr. Gregory" y "Jemima y el Lobo". La recolección de estas historias en un solo tomo permite al lector adentrarse por completo en la imaginación de Leonora Carrington y fascinarse por sus historias fantásticas, el mundo onírico y su percepción de la realidad de forma macabra, satírica y brillante."

Cuentos completos

Korku Evi - Yedinci At

Il latte dei sogni

“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. With a startling range of styles, subjects, and even languages (several of the stories are translated from French or Spanish), The Complete Stories captures the genius and irrepressible spirit of an amazing artist’s life.

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