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Lumen recupera una voz fundamental: «Una de las escritoras más talentosas y extrañas de la literatura en español» (Mariana Enriquez). La novela que la autora consideró siempre su mejor obra. Una mujer se inclina sobre la baranda de un transatlántico para recoger un broche y cae accidentalmente por la borda. Mientras el barco se aleja, hace una promesa a Santa Rita, la «abogada de lo imposible»: si logra salvarse, escribirá la historia de su vi...

Lumen recupera una voz fundamental: una de las mejores cuentistas del siglo XX en español. «Un volumen de cuentos que revela a una autora «con un talento magnético, una mujer con un universo propio muy único, sumamente complejo, oscuro y luminoso a la vez» —Leila Guerriero «Una de las escritoras más talentosas y extrañas de la literatura en español.»—Mariana Enriquez Publicado por primera vez en 1948, Autobiografía de Irene cumple las promesas...

The Topless Tower is Silvina Ocampo's most imaginative work, one which takes the canon of Western fantasy and turns it on its head. A cross between Alice in Wonderland and the short stories of Jorge Luis Borges, it packs a whole fantastical world into a swift fever-dream narrative. The efforts of Leandro to escape the dreamlike tower where he has been spirited by the Devil are a key text of the South American surrealist movement.

Den forsvundne appelsin består af 16 eventyr for både voksne og større børn, cirka 9 til 11 år. Hovedpersonerne er alle børn, der ønsker at forlade den ofte utilfredsstillende virkelighed, de lever i. På den ene eller den anden måde træder de ind i magiens verden, hvor alt er muligt. Der er rovdyr, fugle og andre vilde dyr, der både kan tale og på magisk vis opfylder børnenes ønsker. I titelhistorien, Den forunderlige appelsin, konfronteres...

Fantastical, unnerving short stories from a Surrealist master of the form.

A dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity. "A masterpiece from an extraordinary author who deserves to be read over and over."--Marjorie Agosin, author of I Lived On Butterfly Hillll

Silvina Ocampo possessed her own special enchantment as a poet, and only now is her extraordinary poetic achievement becoming more widely recognized beyond Latin America. Remarkably, this is the first collection of Ocampo's poetry to appear in English. From her early sonnets on the native Argentine landscape, to her meditations on love's travails, to her explorations of the kinship between plant and animal realms, to her clairvoyant inquiries ...

El dortor Humberto Huberman, médico homeópata, llega al apartado hotel Bosque de Mar  en busca de una deleitable y fecunda soledad. Pronto se verá envuelto en las complejas relaciones que los curiosos habitantes del hotel han ido tejiendo. Una mañana, uno de ellos aparece muerto y otro ha desaparecido. Bajo la amenaza de los cangrejales y del mar, aislados durante cuatro días por una tormenta de viento y arena, las relaci...

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...

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An NYRB Classics OriginalThus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great masters of the story and the novella. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels and demons, a marble statue of a winged horse that speaks, a beautiful seer who writes the autobiography of her own death, a lapdog who records the dreams of an old woman, a suicidal romance, ...

When a mysterious stranger arrives laden with paintings, Leandro finds his quiet life instantly and mysteriously disrupted. Awakening locked in a windowless room in a topless tower, he finds himself trapped--the subject in one of the stranger's eerie paintings. Heavily influenced by nonsense literature such as Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonderland" and the surrealist movement in South America, "The Topless Tower" features all the typical hallma...