Forgotten Journey

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Excerpts to appear in "The New Yorker," Summer 2019, "Two Lines Journal," Fall 2019, "Massachusetts Review," Fall 2019"This is one of two books by Silvina Ocampo-her first and her last - being simultaneously published by City Lights, each of them translated into English for the first time.We will promote The Promise and The Forgotten Journey actively together, bookends of a remarkable career. Books will be packaged to resemble each other.We will seek younger, contemporary writers to comment on the importance of Ocampo.- Silvina Ocampo is a key feminist voice of 20th century, one of the few women to be included in the modern Latin American canon, a modernist whose vision and talents will appeal to contemporary readers of feminist, fantastic and literary fiction. A contemporary of Borges.- Recent interest in Ocampo's work situates Forgotten Journey, her very first published work, as an invaluable introduction to a tremendous career.- Forgotten Journey has been translated from the Spanish by two award-winning translators, Suzanne Jill Levin and Jessica Powell, experts in the tradition of Argentine fantastic literature, of which Ocampo was a crucial, if under-translated, figure.