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Antologia - Cuentos De La Nena Terrible (Spanish, Paperback)
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Antologia - Cuentos De La Nena Terrible (Spanish, Paperback)
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Silvina Ocampo (1903-93), author of seven volumes of poetry and
more than three hundred short stories, was a member of Argentina's
Sur generation, the extraordinary group of writers who initiated
Latin America's literary boom. Like her most distinguished
contemporary, Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo is known for her
interest in the supernatural. In contrast to Borges, however, her
characters are frequently women or little girls who challenge
notions of female propriety at every turn. Ocampo's stories often
portray a world of every-day banality in which violence, sexual
transgression, and hints of the supernatural combine to question
the reader's expectations of female power, freedom and creativity.
The selections in this volume trace the female characters of
Ocampo's stories from the entirety of her literary production. They
are arranged in chronological order so that the evolution of her
style is visible. One can perceive, for instance, that her early
interest in surrealism returns later in her life. The uncanny sense
that there is something going on beneath the surface of her
narratives is a characteristic of all of them. Silvina Ocampo has
for too long been a kind of insider secret for the literati of her
generation. She deserves to be more widely understood as a
significant contributor to the innovations of her circle, that of
Borges, Bioy Casares, Jose Bianco and Julio Cortazar. She also
deserves to take her place among the more famous Latin American
women writers of her day, Maria Luisa Bombal (Chile), Armonia
Somers (Uruguay), Rosario Castellanos, Elena Garro (Mexico) and
Clarice Lispector (Brazil). She is clearly one of the twentieth
century's most original voices.
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