Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993) studied painting with Giorgio de Chirico and Fernand Léger in Paris, before returning to Buenos Aires. Her first collection of stories, Forgotten Journey appeared in 1937. She was also a prolific poet and translator. Ocampo was reportedly denied Argentina“s National Prize for fiction in 1979 after judges decided her work was „too cruel“.
3 Ebooks von Balderston Daniel Balderston
Daniel Balderston: Out of Context
In Jorge Luis Borges’s finely wrought, fantastic stories, so filigreed with strange allusions, critics have consistently found little to relate to the external world, to history–in short, to reality …
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Noe Jitrik: Noe Jitrik Reader
The Argentine scholar Noe Jitrik has long been one of the foremost literary critics in Latin America, noted not only for his groundbreaking scholarship but also for his wit. This volume is the first …
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€37.32
Silvina Ocampo: The Impostor
Whimsical and sinister, each story by Silvina Ocampo is like a knife of spun sugar that can still pierce between your ribs. A thief breaks into the house of a psychic with disastrous results, a bride …
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