{"product_id":"the-complete-stories-of-leonora-carrington-isbn-9780997366648","title":"The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington","description":"\u003cb\u003e“\u003ci\u003eComplete Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, a collection of Carrington’s published and unpublished short stories—many newly translated from their original French and Spanish—is a terrific introduction to her bizarre, dreamlike worlds.” —Carmen Maria Machado, \u003ci\u003eNPR \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePublished to coincide with the centennial of her birth, \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington\u003c\/i\u003e 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), \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Stories\u003c\/i\u003e 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. In \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Stories\u003c\/i\u003e 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. Whenever Carrington's heroines are forced to pledge allegiance, they always choose the company of beasts.” —Joy Press, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“In Leonora’s writing, it is the feral spirit that prevails, and the only humans worthy of empathy are those who reject social norms and surrender to their primal nature.” Chloe Aridjis, \u003ci\u003eThe Yale Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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.” —Parul Sehgal, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This definitive collection of Carrington's short fiction is a treasure and a gift to the world. A stunning achievement.” —Jeff VanderMeer \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Her delirious fantasy reveals to us a little of the secret magic of her paintings.” —Luis Buñuel \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“The writing is as neat, dry and witty as the content is wild, woolly and portentous.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Times Literary Supplement \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Kathryn Davis's wonderful introduction to this complete collection (published in conjunction with the centennial of Carrington's birth) is a satisfying piece on its own, delightedly preparing the reader for a writer bestowed with a satisfying mix of the most wicked yet tender of visions.” —\u003ci\u003eEntropy \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Carrington's stories are optimistic and nihilistic, beautiful and grotesque, tender and cruel. She never contented herself with something simple or trite, a philosophy of life that can be shortened and simplified and put in a fortune cookie.” —Sheila Heti \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Her protagonists speak to gods, monsters, parents, and strangers in the same fearlessly ironic voice. Irrational or horrible things happen to people in these stories just as they do in fairy tales, dreams, the Bible, and real life. Intending to destroy dualistic viewpoints, Carrington offers no glib moral judgments.” —\u003ci\u003eThe Village Voice \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Her stories are vivid, funny and surprisingly fresh . . . [combining] satire with surrealist situations to deftly mock the pomposity of organized religion, sexual repression or the endless forms of bureaucratic hypocrisy and ineptitude.” —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A menagerie of eccentric humans, bloodthirsty talking animals, and hybrid creatures is on display in her fantastic, and fantastical, collection of stories.” —\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“\u003ci\u003eThe Complete Stories\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eDown Below\u003c\/i\u003e are both remarkable books; read together they are almost overwhelming. The Carrington centennial should stand as one of the great literary events of 2017. I know that I will be pressing these books on friends, family, and acquaintances for years to come.” —\u003ci\u003eTor.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLeonora Carrington\u003c\/b\u003e (1917–2011) was a key figure in the Surrealist movement and an artist of remarkable individuality. She was born to a wealthy English family in 1917, expelled from two convents as a girl, and presented to the king's court in 1933. Four years later, she ran off with Max Ernst and became a darling of the art world in Paris: serving guests hair omelets at one party, arriving naked to another. After Ernst was taken from their home to a Nazi internment camp in 1940, Carrington fled France. Nearly mad with grief and terror, she was thrown into a lunatic asylum in Spain, and, after escaping, married a Mexican diplomat, fleeing Europe for New York City then Mexico City, where she lived for the rest of her life. Throughout her long career, Carrington published novels, stories, and plays, in addition to making paintings, sculptures, and tapestries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eKathryn Davis\u003c\/b\u003e has received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She is the author of many novels, including \u003ci\u003eLabrador\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Girl Who Trod on a Loaf\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHell\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Walking Tour\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Thin Place\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVersailles\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDuplex\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSilk Road.\u003c\/i\u003e In 2006 she received the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. She is the senior fiction writer in the MFA program at Washington University in St. Louis.","brand":"Dorothy, a publishing project","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300692283621,"sku":"NP9780997366648","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780997366648.jpg?v=1767738802","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-complete-stories-of-leonora-carrington-isbn-9780997366648","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}