The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington [Paperback]

Fiction. Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of gorgeous tableaus, biting satire, roguish comedy, and brilliant, effortless flights of the imagination. Nowhere are these qualities more ingeniously brought together than in the works of short fiction she wrote throughout her life.

Published to coincide with the centennial of her birth, THE COMPLETE STORIES OF LEONORA CARRINGTON collects for the first time all of her stories, including several never before seen in print. With a startling range of styles, subjects, and even languages (several of the stories are translated from French or Spanish), THE COMPLETE STORIES captures the genius and irrepressible spirit of an amazing artist's life. In both her prose and her visual art, Carrington dissolves the borders between human and inhuman, fantasy and reality, death and life. InThe Complete Storieswe 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. Whenever Carrington's heroines are forced to pledge allegiance, they always choose the company of beasts. —Joy Press,Los Angeles Times, Leonora Carrington, the surrealist storytelling genius you've never heard of This definitive collection of Carrington's short fiction is a treasure and a gift to the world. A stunning achievement. —Jeff VanderMeer Leonora Carrington has unswervingly followed the intensity of her own particular vision and way of being...Her work bristles with a fierce, unconventional brand of feminism; anger gives it its final edge of irony and power. —Angela Carter Her delirious fantasy reveals to us a little of the secret magic of her paintings. —Luis Buñuel The writing is as neat, dry and witty as the content is wild, woolly lc`