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Her poetic voice is often tranquil…. “The cemetery looked like a flower show, and the streets sounded like a bell-ringing contest,” she writes of a funeral procession in “Friends,” one of the stories in the newly translated collection Thus Were Their Faces. In any event she really hit her stride, in content and style, with the collection The Guests, from which the eerie and mysterious title story was drawn. The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. : Thus Were Their Faces : Selected Stories by Silvina Ocampo (2015, Trade Paperback) at the best online prices at eBay! Italo Calvino once said about her, “I don’t know another writer who better captures the magic inside everyday rituals, the forbidden or hidden face that our mirrors don’t show us.” Thus Were Their Faces collects a wide range of Ocampo’s best short fiction and novella-length stories from her whole writing life. of late-Meiji Tokyo. 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Italo Calvino once said about her, “I don’t know another writer who better captures the magic inside everyday rituals, the forbidden or hidden face that our mirrors don’t show us.” Thus Were Their Faces collects a wide range of Ocampo’s best short fiction and novella-length stories from her whole writing life. Thus Were Their Faces, an original collection of Silvina Ocampo’s stories will also be available from the New York Review of Books from 21 May 2015 in the UK and 27 Jan 2015 in the US. Ocampo's friend and collaborator Jorge Luis Borges called Ocampo "one of the greatest poets in the Spanish language, whether on this side of the ocean or on the other." For this NYRB edition, translator Daniel Balderston has added new material that make the book roughly one third longer. NYREV, Inc. 2015. Devers, Longreads, “Magical….Ocampo’s earlier words resonate now with something of the 'clairvoyance' Borges once attributed to her….Mind-blowing hallucinogenic lines…make it important to take the stories in small, slow doses lest we zip by and miss them.” —Jill Schepmann, The Rumpus“Ocampo mixes unembellished narration and dark, fantastic elements into a heady cocktail.” —Heather Cleary, Lit Hub“Sublime poet and eminent master of the modern fantastic—her heirs include Julio Cortázar, who praised her ability to summon the strangeness in the everyday, Roberto Bolaño, who declared that he “would live very happily in Silvina Ocampo’s kitchen,” and César Aira—Ocampo deserves to be heralded alongside the greatest Latin American authors of the 20th century…. Silvina Ocampo wrote surreal stories of extraordinary madness, reminding me of a South American Paul Bowles, spinning exotic folk tales that converge religion, the supernatural and the occult. —Scott Esposito, Music and Literature "Part of the pleasure of reading Ocampo – or rather the thrill, as some of her work is far from pleasurable – is never knowing what the next sentence will bring… Illogic and paradox shoot from the strange soil of her fiction, where dark, perturbing situations thrive… The range of Ocampo’s invention is impressive… Ocampo creates recognisable domestic settings that she then infects with strangeness. Free shipping for many products! I'm also a fan of what I like to call emotional darkness, and this collection certainly covers it. From the author of The Door, a beloved coming-of-age tale set in WWII-era Hungary. Gina ... A New York Review Books OriginalIn 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in ... A New York Review Books OriginalIn 1905 the young Swiss writer Robert Walser arrived in So wrote Silvina Ocampo from her home in Buenos Aires in 1987. Start by marking “Thus Were Their Faces” as Want to Read: Error rating book. Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century’s great masters of the story and the novella. Her stories have no equal in our literature.” —Jorge Luis Borges “Silvina Ocampo is, together with Borges and García Márquez, the leading writer in Spanish.” —Jorge Amado “Unsettling and off-kilter, revelatory and readable.” —A.N. The city is winched along tracks through a devastated land full of hostile tribes. A creepy abandoned house, a knife, a gun, melancholy, madness. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels and demons, a marble statue of a winged horse that speaks, a beautiful seer who writes the autobiography of her own death, a lapdog who records the dreams of an … Best Book of 2015: Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo Valerie Miles ‘Time is a rubber band, and in a single sentence, ghosts and alternative worlds superimpose’ The stories in this book are certainly bizarre and have a way of unexpectedly creeping up on you as you are reading. Instead, we get part of it, with lesser examples of Ocampo's craft stretching before and after (though the stories of The Fury also seem to form a powerful and cohesive set, here incomplete) and earlier novella The Imposter is a Cortazar-prefiguring masterpiece of a certain unrelenting narrative pull of another world, until reader and subjective reality cross over into a new understanding. Photograph courtesy of narrativabreve.com I particularly liked "Prayer," "The House Made of Sugar," "The Journey," and "The Velvet Dress." Strange, beautiful, comedic, grotesque, bewildering, this collection of Silvina Ocampo's short stories showcases the underrated writer's surrealist strengths even if barreling through these stories without breaks can be a bit exhausting in the end. Taken from Silvina Ocampo, published by NYRB Poets in the US on 27 January and in the UK on 21 May. In its introduction, she likens writing to “having a sprite within reach, something we can turn into a demon or a monster, but also something that will give us unexpected happiness or the … Translated from the Spanish by Daniel Balderston. I found Ocampo to be a great companion Flannery O'Connor, exchanging the southeastern U.S. grotesque for South American supernaturalism, with nearly equal overall darkness. DC Public Library System. Be the first to ask a question about Thus Were Their Faces. Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century’s great masters of the story and the novella. Stories about creepy doubles, a marble statue of a winged horse that speaks to a … "Thus were their faces" is an expanded edition of "Leopoldina's Dream"published by Penguin in 1987. Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century’s great masters of the story and the novella. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels and demons, a marble statue of a winged horse that speaks, a beautiful seer who writes the autobiography of her own death, a lapdog who records the dreams of an … THUS WERE THEIR FACES by Silvina Ocampo. Choose from contactless Same Day Delivery, Drive Up and more. When you want to die you fall in love with yourself, you look for something touching that will save you.” ― Silvina Ocampo, Thus Were Their Faces Or this may be because my copy came from the library, meaning I couldn't leave as much space to breath between stories as they may deserve. Coe... To see what your friends thought of this book, This is a book that is going to stick with me for a very, very long time mainly because of the beauty, intense originality, and strangeness of Silvina Ocampo's writing. The stories in this book are certainly bizarre and have a way of unexpectedly creeping up on you as you are reading. Silvina Ocampo, man. Use up arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+up arrow) and down arrow (for mozilla firefox browser alt+down arrow) to review and enter to select. Having read these, I was shocked I have never hear of Ms. Ocampo -is this simply a facet of my unknowably vast, indeed, by all-appearances ever growing swell of ignorance, or does she simply not receive her just due? I intend to real-time review this book’s fiction as, when or if I read it. Most of the … Ocampo is a marvelous writer, and each story taken by itself is a wonder. Abigail, Beautiful and creepy--my favorite kind of book. The punishments she cooks up for her characters are presented with unmistakable irony, and the results are frequently comedic and not infrequently touching.” —Becca Rothfeld, Bookforum "[Ocampo's] poetic sentences apply just the right pressure to turn everyday details vivid, but not lurid…it is time for Ocampo’s dark star to rise. At the same time: grassy plains, flamingos, a silver. Thus Were Their Faces is a collection of Ocampo’s short stories drawn from the seven volumes she wrote in her lifetime. Yet when her poetry wanders into the terrain of people, Ocampo exhibits emotional dexterity and arresting candidness.” —Jose Teodoro, National Post “Every story [evokes] a fantastic atmosphere – at once creepy and inviting. A brand new collection of Silvina Ocampo's wildly surreal stories that affirms the author's position as one of the most important Argentine authors of the 20th century. Overview. Ho ho, there are some that you do remember, that scar their notch against your brain, and she was one of them – sexy, funny, utterly unconcerned with genre or literary distinctions, and savagely, brilliantly, mean. We’d love your help. She left me guessing throughout and generally never resolved the mystery even at the end of a story. An NYRB Classics OriginalThus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century's great masters of the story and the novella. With the arrival this week, nearly 30 years later, of her magical collection of selected stories, Thus Were Their Faces, Ocampo’s earlier words resonate now with something of the “clairvoyance” Borges once attributed to her. Learn how to enable JavaScript on your browser, "These stories are feverish, cruel, and wry, set among the surrealisms of puberty, disability, and precarity." must be freshly laid ahead of the city and carefully removed in its wake. Navigate; Linked Data; Dashboard; Tools / Extras; Stats; Share . An incredible new collection of this 20th centuray master storyteller from Argentina: if you like Calvino, Borges, or Marquez's tales, READ THIS NOW! What this gains as a reference work from its scope and depth in drawing from Ocampo's many collections, it loses somewhat as a cohesive reading experience, as a single book. What this gains as a reference work from its scope and depth in drawing from Ocampo's many collections, it loses somewhat as a cohesive reading experience, as a single book. In its introduction, she likens writing to “having a sprite within reach, something we can turn into a demon or a monster, but also something that will give us unexpected happiness or the wish to die.” The sense that something magical lies just outside our grasp, that something other could determine our eternal happiness or melancholia, pervades all of the pieces in this collec. This essay is the introduction to the new NYRB Classics edition of Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo, translated by Daniel Balderston.. What we have in Silvina Ocampo is a writer of the Big Bad Wolf school. My favorite stories were the ones where I was never sure whether I was reading fantasy or reality. —Joshua Cohen, Harper's, “She lived a little in the shadow of her sister Victoria on the one hand and of her husband Bioy Casares and Borges on the other. AbeBooks.com: Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories (NYRB Classics) (9781590177679) by Ocampo, Silvina and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. Ocampo’s funerals are cheerful, her fêtes funereal. Those looking for tales from a slightly less talented fellow traveller of Borges. This one I do remember, however. This essay is the introduction to the new NYRB Classics edition of Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo, translated by Daniel Balderston. Don't trust what follows – all book reviews are lies! When you want to die you fall in love with yourself, you look for something touching that will save you.”, Struwwelpeter: Merry Stories and Funny Pictures, Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories, by Silvina Ocampo, Alexis Coe on Why It Matters When Women Write History. It is worthy of becoming a popular classic and not just a forgotten footnote in Argentinian literature.” —Kenyon Ellefson, Portland Book Review “In the dark world of Ocampo’s fiction, the familiar yet unsettling imagery of fantasy has a sense of reality that reality itself often lacks…. However, I feel as though this is the case with most longer short story collections. Some other time... With a description like that you can see why I asked Silvina Ocampo's publisher, New York Review of Books, for a review copy. The mourners “were … I loved This Were Their Faces for its weird melding of reality and surreality. Here are tales of doubles and impostors, angels and demons, a marble statue of a winged horse that speaks, a beautiful seer who writes the autobiography of her own death, a lapdog who records the dreams of an old woman, a … Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Javascript is not enabled in your browser. An NYRB Classics Original Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth century’s great masters of the story and the novella. January 27th 2015 Will I Keep it: Obviously. Or this may be because my copy came from the library, meaning I couldn't leave as much space to breath between stories as they may deserve. She was an extravagant woman when writing her stories, short and crystalline, she was perfect.” —César Aira“Dark, masterly tales...a (very good) introduction...a (very good) translator...Ocampo’s technique is beyond all reproach; an author has to keep masterly control when letting events veer off beyond the quotidian (the phrase 'magic realism' seems inadequate when applied to her).” —Nicholas Lezard, The Guardian“Ocampo wrote with fascinated horror of Argentinean petty bourgeois society, whose banality and kitsch settings she used in a masterly way to depict strange, surreal atmospheres sometimes verging on the supernatural.” —The Independent“Few writers have an eye for the small horrors of everyday life; fewer still see the everyday marvelous. Here you will find an abundance of tales of murder and death in many different, bizarre forms; long-term resentments that turn into breaking points which materialize in different guises, and there are also stories. Introduction by Helen Oyeyemi Translated by Daniel Balderston Preface: Jorge Luis Borges. Uh-oh, it looks like your Internet Explorer is out of date. “When you write, everything is possible, even the very opposite of what you are.”, “Writing is a luxury or, with luck, a rainbow of colors. It’s a large book, with (by my count) 42 stories, most as short as a few pages, and just a couple topping 20 pages. This is the problem with translations, writers slipping through the cracks and never making it into English. Those who have read "Leopoldina's Dream" should not read this new expended edition unless they a strong desire to re-read the tales found in the earlier relesed book. And I can tell you the book lived up to the description. Submit your email address to receive Barnes & Noble offers & updates. Simultaneously incomplete and overwhelming, yet essential. Rails Here you will find an abundance of tales of murder and death in many different, bizarre forms; long-term resentments that turn into breaking points which materialize in different guises, and there are also stories that focus on prophecy and dreams that are also not without their deeper, darker edges. Mail Thus Were Their Faces is a collection of Ocampo’s short stories drawn from the seven volumes she wrote in her lifetime. Thus Were Their Faces (Selected Stories) by Ocampo Silvina (ISBN: 978-1-59017-767-9); Published by New York Review of Books, Incorporated, Thein Jan 2015. by NYRB Classics. Silvina Ocampo Aguirre is one of the most important Latin American writers of the 20th century, and you paradoxically probably never heard of her. 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