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Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories
| Author: | Silvina Ocampo |
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New York Review of Books Classics, 2015 |
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| Genre: | Fantasy / Horror |
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Synopsis
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. Dark, gothic, fantastic, and grotesque, these haunting stories are among the world's most individual and finest.
Table of Contents:
- Introduction by Helen Oyeyemi (read online)
- Preface by Jorge Luis Borges
- Author's Introduction
- From Forgotten Journey (1937)
- Forgotten Journey
- Strange Visit
- From Autobiography of Irene (1948)
- The Imposter
- Autobiography of Irene
- From The Fury (1959)
- The House Made of Sugar (read online)
- The Clock House
- Mimoso
- The Sibyl
- The Basement (read online)
- The Photographs
- Magush
- The Objects
- The Fury
- Azabache
- The Velvet Dress
- Leopoldina's Dreams
- The Wedding
- Voice on the Telephone
- The Punishment
- The Prayer
- Friends
- Report on Heaven and Hell
- From The Guests (1961)
- Thus Were Their Faces
- Revelation
- Visions
- The Bed
- Lovers
- The Expiation
- Icera
- The Perfect Crime
- The Mortal SinThe Guests
- From Days of Night (1970)
- Men Animals Vines
- Livio Roca
- The Doll
- Carl Herst
- From And So Forth (1987)
- The Music of the Rain
- Sheets of Earth
- And So Forth
- A Doll's Secret Memories
- From Cornelia Before the Mirror (1988)
- Cornelia Before the Mirror
- (Com)passion
- Translator's Note
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