![]() ![]() Her work bristles with a fierce, unconventional brand of feminism anger gives it its final edge of irony and power. ![]() Leonora Carrington has unswervingly followed the intensity of her own particular vision and way of being. This definitive collection of Carrington's short fiction is a treasure and a gift to the world. Parul Sehgal, The New York Times Book Review This is the best description of what it feels like to read her work: In the middle of the fluffy fairy tale, something bristles, something unpleasantly familiar, something human and frightening. Whenever Carrington's heroines are forced to pledge allegiance, they always choose the company of beasts. ![]() In The Complete Stories we meet a mad queen who uses squirming live sponges to wash herself a corpse that casts a circle of light in the forest and a horse-woman who lives among plants and animals because humans won't accept her hybrid state. In both her prose and her visual art, Carrington dissolves the borders between human and inhuman, fantasy and reality, death and life. Complete Stories, a collection of Carrington’s published and unpublished short stories-many newly translated from their original French and Spanish-is a terrific introduction to her bizarre, dreamlike worlds. ![]()
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