The Impostor

and Other Stories

The Impostor
Helen Oyeyemi, Silvina Ocampo, Daniel Balderston
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Paperback
h198 x 130mm - 368pg
2 Dec 2021 UK
International import eta 7-19 days
9781788168793
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Whimsical and sinister, each story by Silvina Ocampo is like a knife of spun sugar that can still pierce between your ribs. A thief breaks into the house of a psychic with disastrous results, a bride has her personality subsumed by the previous occupant of her home, and two men switch destinies for a change of pace. The Impostor offers a comprehensive collection from one of the twentieth century' s great forgotten woman writers. Here are tales of doubles and living dolls, angels and demons, a beautiful seer who writes the autobiography of her own death, and much else that is mad, sublime, and delicious. With an array spanning the length of Ocampo' s career, these haunting stories are among the world' s strangest and best.
' Silvina Ocampo is one of our best writers. Her stories have no equal in our literature. ' - Jorge Luis Borges ' No other writer better captures the magic inside everyday rituals, the forbidden or hidden face that our mirrors don' t show us. ' - Italo Calvino ' Few writers have an eye for the small horrors of everyday life; fewer still see the everyday marvellous. Other than Silvina Ocampo, I cannot think of a single writer who at any time or in any language, has chronicled both with such wise and elegant humour. ' - Alberto Manguel
Silvina Ocampo (1903-1993) studied painting with Giorgio de Chirico and Fernand Leger in Paris, before returning to Buenos Aires. Her first collection of stories, Forgotten Journey appeared in 1937. She was also a prolific poet and translator. Ocampo was reportedly denied Argentina' s National Prize for fiction in 1959 after judges decided her work was ' too cruel' .
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ISBN-13: 9781788168793
Published: 2 Dec 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Serpent's Tail
Publisher: Profile Books
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 130mm
Spine: 26mm
Weight: 300g
Pages: 368

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