Portrait of the Late Mrs Partridge — Leonora Carrington
Portrait of the Late Mrs Partridge, 1947 by Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)
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Who Art Thou White Face? — Leonora Carrington
Portrait of the Late Ms. Partridge — Leonora Carrington
A review of Leonora Carrington’s surreal novel The Hearing Trumpet
Leonora Carrington’s novel The Hearing Trumpet begins with its nonagenarian narrator forced into a retirement home and ends in an ecstatic post-apocalyptic utopia “peopled with cats, werewolves, bees and goats.” In between all sorts of wild stuff happens. There’s a scheming New Age cult, a failed assassination attempt, a hunger strike, bee glade rituals, a witches… Continue reading A review of Leonora Carrington’s surreal novel The Hearing Trumpet
Surrealism is no longer considered modern today | Leonora Carrington
Art in London didn’t seem quite modern enough and I began to want to study in Paris where the Surrealists were in full cry. Surrealism is no longer considered modern today and almost every village rectory and girl’s school have surrealist pictures hanging on their walls. Even Buckingham Palace has a large reproduction of… Continue reading Surrealism is no longer considered modern today | Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet (Book acquired, 1 Dec. 2020)
NYRB will have a new edition of surrealist painter Leonora Carrington’s 1976 novel The Hearing Trumpet out in early January of 2021. I started it this afternoon, and the first 20 or so pages seem to divert in style from the short stories I’ve read by her—definitely chock full of quirky imagery, but also relatively straightforward in… Continue reading Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet (Book acquired, 1 Dec. 2020)
A review of Gisèle Prassinos’s collection of surreal anti-fables, The Arthritic Grasshopper
I can’t remember which particular Surrealist I was googling when I learned about Gisèle Prassinos. I do know that it was just a few weeks ago, and I’ve had an interest in Surrealist art and literature since I was a kid, so I was a bit stunned that I’d never heard of her before now—strange, given… Continue reading A review of Gisèle Prassinos’s collection of surreal anti-fables, The Arthritic Grasshopper
“White Rabbits,” a short tale by Leonora Carrington
“White Rabbits” by Leonora Carrington THE TIME has come that I must tell the events which began in 40 Pest St. The houses which were reddish-black looked as if they had survived mysteriously from the fire of London. The house in front of my window, covered with an occasional wisp of creeper, was as blank… Continue reading “White Rabbits,” a short tale by Leonora Carrington
Dalvaux — Leonora Carrington
Dalvaux, 1952 by Leonora Carrington (1917-2011)
A review of Gisèle Prassinos’s collection of surreal anti-fables, The Arthritic Grasshopper
I can’t remember which particular Surrealist I was googling when I learned about Gisèle Prassinos. I do know that it was just a few weeks ago, and I’ve had an interest in Surrealist art and literature since I was a kid, so I was a bit stunned that I’d never heard of her before now—strange, given… Continue reading A review of Gisèle Prassinos’s collection of surreal anti-fables, The Arthritic Grasshopper
The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington (Book acquired, 10 April 2017)
You probably know Leonora Carrington for her rich, wry surrealist paintings, sculptures, drawings, and sketches. She also wrote rich, wry surrealist tales, which the good people at Dorothy have collected in The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington. I kind of flipped out when I first saw the publication announcement for this collection. Her work has been out… Continue reading The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington (Book acquired, 10 April 2017)
The Expedition of Dr. Ramsbottom — Leonora Carrington
Operation Wednesday — Leonora Carrington
Jack be Nimble, Jack be Quick — Leonora Carrington
Leonora Carrington in the LRB
The Temptation of St. Antony, Leonora Carrington Nice piece by Alice Sprawls on Leonora Carrington (whose work is now on display in the Tate) in The London Review of Books today. Excerpt: Domesticity in Carrington’s paintings and stories is the scene of Ovidian and spiritual transformations; cooking was a sort of alchemy, like painting,… Continue reading Leonora Carrington in the LRB
Read “Uncle Sam Carrington,” a short story by Leonora Carrington
“Uncle Sam Carrington” by Leonora Carrington When Uncle Sam Carrington saw the full moon he was never able to stop laughing. A sunset had the same effect on Aunt Edgeworth. These two events created much suffering for my mother who took pleasure in a certain social prestige. At the age of eight I was considered… Continue reading Read “Uncle Sam Carrington,” a short story by Leonora Carrington
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