THE IMPOSTOR AND OTHER STORIES

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  • Publisher : Serpents Tail
  • Author : SILVINA OCAMPO
  • Language : English
  • Binding Type : Paper Back
  • ISBN : 9781788168793
  • Mrp : 599.00

ABOUT THE BOOK

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 has her personality subsumed by the previous occupant of her home, and two men switch destinies for a change of pace. <br><br><i>The Impostor </i>offers a comprehensive collection from one of the twentieth century's great forgotten woman writers. Here are tales of doubles and living dolls, angels and demons, a beautiful seer who writes the autobiography of her own death, and much else that is mad, sublime, and delicious.<br><br>With an array spanning the length of Ocampo's career, these haunting stories are among the world's strangest and best.</p>

ABOUT THE AUTHOR 

Silvina Ocampo</b> (1903-1993) studied painting with Giorgio de Chirico and Fernand Léger in Paris, before returning to Buenos Aires. Her first collection of stories, <i>Forgotten Journey</i> 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'.

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