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by Silvina Ocampo (Author)
Lumen recupera una voz fundamental: «Una de las escritoras más talentosas y extrañas de la literatura en español (Mariana Enriquez).
La novela que la autora consideró siempre su mejor obra.
Una mujer se inclina sobre la baranda de un transatlántico para recoger un broche y cae accidentalmente por la borda. Mientras el barco se aleja, hace una promesa a Santa Rita, la «abogada de lo imposible si logra salvarse, escribirá la historia de su vida. Personas y lugares desfilan ante sus ojos formando un «diccionario de recuerdos a menudo crueles o perturbadores, mientras el mar la rodea con toda su furia. Poco a poco, la imaginación de la náufraga empieza a jugar con esas imágenes del pasado como si quisiera distraerla de los peligros que la acechan, hasta que las fronteras entre lo vivido y lo soñado se desdibujan en una narración que va tornándose cada vez más exuberante, más poética, a medida que se vislumbra el final.
The novel the author considered her best work. A dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity. A woman traveling on a transatlantic ship has fallen overboard. Adrift at sea, she makes a promise to Saint Rita, "arbiter of the impossible," that if she survives, she will write her life story. As she drifts, she wonders what she might include in the story of her life--a repertoire of miracles, threats, and people parade tumultuously through her mind. Little by little, her imagination begins to commandeer her memories, escaping the structures of realism. Translated into English for the very first time, The Promise showcases Silvina Ocampo at her most feminist, idiosyncratic and subversive. Ocampo worked quietly to perfect this novella over the course of twenty-five years, nearly up until the time of her death in 1993. Kirkus Reviews calls The Promise one of the Best Books of Fiction, and Literature in Translation of the year!
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Author Biography
Silvina Ocampo (Buenos Aires, 1903-1993) estudió en su juventud dibujo y pintura en París con Giorgio de Chirico y Fernand Léger. A partir de 1935, después de conocer a Adolfo Bioy Casares, con quien se casó en 1940, se dedicó por entero a la literatura. Vivió rodeada de figuras imponentes -su marido, su hermana Victoria, su amigo Jorge Luis Borges-, pero eso no le impidió cultivar una desafiante singularidad. Publicó, entre otros, Viaje olvidado (cuentos, 1937), Enumeración de la patria (poesía, 1942), Autobiografía de Irene (cuentos, 1948), Los traidores (teatro, en colaboración con J. R. Wilcock, 1956), La furia (cuentos, 1959), Las invitadas (cuentos, 1961), Lo amargo por dulce (poesía, 1963), Los días de la noche (cuentos, 1970), Árboles de Buenos Aires (poesía, 1979) y Cornelia frente al espejo (cuentos, 1988). El enorme conjunto de textos inéditos que dejó al morir añadió una dimensión adicional a su obra, donde confluyen lo cotidiano y lo fantástico. Sus libros han sido traducidos al inglés, francés, italiano, portugués, danés, chino y árabe. Hoy es reconocida como una de las escritoras más originales de las letras hispanoamericanas.
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