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The Collected Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington

December 17, 2019 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

There’s something I love about surrealism that I don’t love about fables (or more so “modern fables”). I look at surrealism in terms of looking at the world in a flattened sense and then trying to represent that world as you see it without the assumptions and protections and stability of context. And in this collection of short fiction by the writer and painter Leonora Carrington (of both Mexico and the Uk) we get that kind of picture painted for us here. And so of […]

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vel veeter's CBR11 Review No:699 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: leonora carrington, the collected stories of leonora carrington ·
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