Between real, fantastic and barjot

Last year. Meanwhile, the fascinating Argentinian novelist Mariana Enriquez between real, fantastic barjot paid tribute to Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993), in an essay that gave a crazy desire to discover the work of this essential figure, although underestimated, of Argentinian literature (“The little sister”, ed. Consequently, From the basement). Why underestimated? Because Silvina lived in the shade of more flamboyant. and less introverted personalities: Bioy Casares, her husband, Borges, her friend, Victoria, her big sister, founder of the literary review “on”. In the solitude of the luxurious mansion where she lived. Silvina developed a very singular, poisonous and dreamlike imagination, which made Mariana Enriquez say that she was “Very weird”. We will understand better. by discovering this collection of twenty-eight short news (her first, published in 1937) how Silvina was an extraordinary writer. Strange girls of a coachman. « as lazy and indolent as greenhouse flowers »aging in sight in large mirrors hanging on the walls of deserted palaces; other girls « so between real, fantastic barjot quiet that it would have been said that they posed for an invisible photographer “ ; House disturbing with these spider canvases flowering on the ceilings, and this steward, living there alone and daring to look up on a statue of naked woman, in the hall. It’s crossed out, Barjot, great. It’s Ocampo.

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