Silvina Ocampo Knihy

Las repeticiones contiene la mayor parte de los relatos inéditos que Silvina Ocampo no llegó a publicar a lo largo de su vida y que constituyen una muestra más de su inigualable maestría como narradora. Se trata de cuentos cuya escritura se inicia a fines de los treinta y termina en los años ochenta, y a ellos se agregan dos novelas cortas, El vidente y Lo mejor de la familia. Todos estos relatos abordan las siempre inquietantes obsesiones de la autora: el misterio de casas y jardines, el enigma fatal o redentor de una voz, las crueldades de la infancia, la predestinación de un nombre y los amores fantasmales. Con una clarividencia que trasciende la idea de lo verosímil y una libertad narrativa que le permite decir todo lo que quiere decir, en Silvina Ocampo la palabra 'inspiración' recobra su sentido, su impulso original.

In ihrem einzigartigen Kriminalroman untersuchen Adolfo Bioy Casares und Silvina Ocampo die Frage, ob man einen vermeintlichen Mörder lieben kann. In einem abgelegenen Hotel an der argentinischen Küste entfaltet sich ein spannendes Spiel mit Misstrauen und Verdacht, während ein Mord und ein Sandsturm die Atmosphäre des Zweifels verstärken.

An NYRB Classics Original Thus 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, and much else that is incredible, mad, sublime, and delicious. Italo Calvino has written that no other writer “better captures the magic inside everyday rituals, the forbidden or hidden face that our mirrors don’t show us.” Jorge Luis Borges flatly declared, “Silvina Ocampo is one of our best writers. Her stories have no equal in our literature.” Dark, gothic, fantastic, and grotesque, these haunting stories are among the world’s most individual and finest.

Delicately crafted, intensely visual, deeply personal stories explore the nature of memory, family ties, and the difficult imbalances of love.

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 hallmarks of Silvina Ocampo’s fantastical writing. With subtle inflections of language and tremendous displays of imagination running riot, Ocampo’s writing is beautifully translated here by James Womack.

A dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity.

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