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The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington

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The Hearing Trumpet

Leonora Carrington, Olga Tokarczuk

New York Review Books · Print & ebook · January 5, 2021

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Book Details

Authors
Leonora Carrington, Olga Tokarczuk
Publisher
New York Review Books
Published
January 5, 2021
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Women Authors Criticism · Humorous Fantasy
Reading lane
Women Authors Criticism

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  • Humorous Fantasy

  • Women's Fiction

  • Absurdist Fiction

About This Book

An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the ear...

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An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth’s rebirth. In between we are swept off to a most curious old-age home run by a self-improvement cult and drawn several centuries back in time with a cross-dressing Abbess who is on a quest to restore the Holy Grail to its rightful owner, the Goddess Venus. Guiding us is one of the most unexpected heroines in twentieth-century literature, a nonagenarian vegetarian named Marian Leatherby, who, as Olga Tokarczuk writes in her afterword, is “hard of hearing” but “full of life.”

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