The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington Paperback – April 28, 2017

Lenora is great, these are micro stories, very short. Very creepy and absurd :-)

Leonora Carrington is one of the best artists of last century. Bought it as a gift for my young adult child and simply loved the collection of short stories and Leonora Carrington's art illustrations.

The moment when, as a teenager, I first discovered the phantasmagorical paintings of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo was one of those rare moments that froze time and forever altered my perception of the world, both within and without. Their respective oeuvres revealed a door inside of me that had always been there, but I’d not quite noticed on my own. My love for their exquisitely beautiful and strange surrealist works knows no bounds, so you can imagine how elated I was to discover that Carrington was also an accomplished writer. To open the cover of this complete collection of her short stories, deliciously dark fairy tales that are nothing short of magical, is to accept Carrington’s proffered hand as she personally guides you deep into paintings she created with written words instead of pigment. They’re every bit as enchanting, unsettling, whimsical, terrifying, and singularly strange as one might expect based upon her painted works. I find that in talking about this book I don’t want to spoil a single image or scene by citing it here. No peeks for you! May each of these stories be as unexpected and bewitching for you as the were for me.

Leonora Carrington's book, "The Milk of Dreams," was the inspiration for the theme of the 2022 Venice Biennale. She was associated with the Surrealists in Paris and Max Ernst, her lover. I had never heard of her as an artist, so it was a great find. Her stories are very dark and weird, but her writing is wonderful. Her imagination is over the top. Enjoy this for the very creative work that it is. I initially sought "The Milk of Dreams" but bought "The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington" and a book on her Surrealist art, as Amazon suggested. You might do the same.

it's great to have all these hard to find tales all in one binding!

Leonora Carrington was an extremely talented individual - a gifted painter as well as a compelling writer. This book offers up her jarring short stories and mini-novellas. Some may seem like fragments, pieces of lucid dreams only partially recalled. Others weave their way through a complex and complete narrative. This clearly isn’t for everyone, but if you have a love for surrealism and like perplexing surprises in literature this is a must read.

The short stories in this book are what you might get if surrealist art paintings transformed into longer narratives. The fun in reading these is for the symbolism to interpret, and the odd, funny and sometimes shocking imagery the author conjures for the reader. Most are just a handful of pages long so you can finish one quickly. If you like surrealist painting or Edward Gorey's books you might enjoy this.

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Llegó rápido. Me encanta el libro —Leonora Carrington fue un personaje increíble—.

I have only recently discovered the work of Leonora Carrington and this book was an absolute delight. If you love surreal humour, you will adore this.

Carrington’s Complete Stories collection is a wild treat, especially to the readers of the Weird. With grotesque, macabre, absurd, sharp and caustic humour and “roguish comedy”, Carrington’s imagination knew no limits. It is a cornucopia of abject agglomerations, highly ornate (partly baroque, partly boarish) – a fractal assemblage of outrageously ingenious deliriums that feeds on the confusion of the reader. Her range of derangements is divergent; her style, a maddening outburst in the face of ‘sanity’. No less political, Carrington’s polymorphic imaginings carry curved razors underneath her voluptuous ridiculousness and mind you, they are mightily honed. Each story breaks the conventional narratology, transgressing the boundaries of meaningfulness and subversive to the extent I might regard her as an anarchist. We won’t laugh while reading her stories. We’ll grin. And if we find ourselves laughing, then that would be a laughter from the madhouse, from asylums – a holy wickedness, diabolically divine!

This collection of stories is easily the weirdest book I have ever read. Leonora Carrington was long associated with the painter Max Ernst. Fittingly, her stories are classified as surrealistic fiction and merge the boundaries between people and animals. Despite the weirdness, they are very engrossing and several remain with you for a long while after the book is finished.

Es una calidad de papel muy buena.Estaba en perfecto estado al recibirlo.Recomiendo este producto 100%Muchas gracias por todo.