Kim McNeill joins us to dicuss Thus Were Their Faces, a collection of short stories written by Silvina Ocampo and translated from Spanish by Daniel Balderston. We explore Ocampo's various renditions of cruelty, trace themes and motifs across her career, and use the F-word (feminism).
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References:The Levant Trilogy by Olivia ManningThe Tale of GenjiPilgrimage by Dorothy RichardsonA Chill in the Air by Iris OrigoMore Was Lost by Eleanor PerenyiSylvia Townsend WarnerRobert WalserThe Corner That Held ThemSurVictoria OcampoJorge Luis BorgesAdolfo Bioy CasaresCity Lights BooksForgotten JourneyThe PromiseNorah LangeMariana EnriquezRemedios VaroHelen OyeyemiVirginia Woolf"Borges and I"The Invention of MorelLucrecia MartelRead Cynthia Duncan's article hereEzekielMary Olivier: A Life by May SinclairJames Joyce
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