"Nada es lo que parece en estos cuentos", advierte Kathryn Davis desde el prólogo. Y es que en estas historias Leonora Carrington construye escenarios habitados por personajes peculiares: una hiena que aprende francés y se hace...
En esta edición el lector encontrará una serie de breves relatos para niños que Leonora Carrington dejó plasmados en una libreta de apuntes. Acompañados de dibujos, a veces de esbozos, de trazos sueltos, estas mini ficci...
Con frecuencia se acepta que durante el siglo XIX y principios del XX fueron los escritores varones quienes desarrollaron y ampliaron el horizonte de los relatos atroces de misterio, y que las mujeres escritoras se limitaron a seguir su estela. ¡Nad...
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...
A debutante frees a hyena from the zoo so that it might take her place at her coming-out ball; an artist paints a portrait of a man s dead wife, but finds she has painted herself instead; a woman makes love to a boar underneath a mountain of cats; a chick...
"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"...
Leonora Carrington is a British born Surrealist painter and writer now living in Mexico city who has been described, alongside people such as Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro, as one of the leading lights of the Surrealist movement. Born in Lancashire in
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
In 1937 Leonora Carringtonâlater to become one of the twentieth centuryâs great painters of the weird, the alarming, and the wildâwas a nineteen-year-old art student in London, beautiful and unapologet...
A classic of fantastic literature, Leonora Carrington's The Hearing Trumpet is the occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, published with an introduction by Ali Smith in Penguin Modern Classics.
An anthology of Virago authors with every year of the 20th century represented, this volume aims to gather all the energies and circumstances of 20th-century women writers into the one book, swinging from one end to the other of 100 years of history and...