"The world is ready for her blend of insane Angela Carter with the
originality of Clarice Lispector."-Mariana Enriquez, LitHub
Delicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories
explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult
imbalances of love. "Both her debut story collection, Forgotten
Journey, and her only novel, The Promise, are strikingly
20th-century texts, written in a high-modernist mode rarely found
in contemporary fiction."-Lily Meyer, NPR "Silvina Ocampo is one of
our best writers. Her stories have no equal in our
literature."--Jorge Luis Borges "I don't know of another writer who
better captures the magic inside everyday rituals, the forbidden or
hidden face that our mirrors don't show us."-Italo Calvino "These
two newly translated books could make her a rediscovery on par with
Clarice Lispector. . . . there has never been another voice like
hers."-John Freeman, Executive Editor, LitHub " . . . it is for the
precise and terrible beauty of her sentences that this book should
be read.A masterpiece of midcentury modernist literature
triumphantly translated into our times."-Publishers Weekly *
Starred Review "Ocampo is beyond great-she is necessary."-Hernan
Diaz, author of In the Distance and Associate Director of the
Hispanic Institute at Columbia University "Like William Blake,
Ocampo's first voice was that of a visual artist; in her writing
she retains the will to unveil immaterial so that we might at least
look at it if not touch it."-Helen Oyeyemi, author of Gingerbread
"Ocampo is a legend of Argentinian literature, and this collection
of her short stories brings some of her most recondite and
mysterious works to the English-speaking world. . . . This
collection is an ideal introduction to a beguiling body of
work."-Publishers Weekly This collection of 28 short stories, first
published in 1937 and now in English translation for the first
time, introduced readers to one of Argentina's most original and
iconic authors. With this, her fiction debut, poet Silvina Ocampo
initiated a personal, idiosyncratic exploration of the politics of
memory, a theme to which she would return again and again over the
course of her unconventional life and productive career. Praise for
Forgotten Journey: "Ocampo is one of those rare writers who seems
to write fiction almost offhandedly, but to still somehow do more
in four or five pages than most writers do in twenty. Before you
know it, the seemingly mundane has bared its surreal teeth and has
you cornered."-Brian Evenson, author of Song for the Unraveling of
the World: Stories "The Southern Cone queen of the short-story,
Ocampo displays all her mastery in Forgotten Journey. After
finishing the book, you only want more."-Gabriela Aleman, author of
Poso Wells "Silvina Ocampo's fiction is wondrous, heart-piercing,
and fiercely strange. Her fabulism is as charming as Borges's. Her
restless sense of invention foregrounds the brilliant feminist work
of writers like Clarice Lispector and Samanta Schweblin. It's
thrilling to have work of this magnitude finally translated into
English, head spinning and thrilling."-Alyson Hagy, author of
Scribe
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