Silvina Ocampo
Argentine poet, short story writer, translator and illustrator associated with surrealism and the Buenos Aires literary scene; sister of Victoria Ocampo and wife of Adolfo Bioy Casares, noted for imaginative, often fantastical short stories and children's literature.
Books
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1. Cuentos Completos I
A unsettling, imaginative collection of short stories that fuse the everyday with the fantastic: domestic scenes, childhood memories and minute social details unravel into sudden metamorphoses, uncanny humor and moments of cruelty. The pieces are concise and dreamlike, using precise, poetic language to intensify a creeping sense of disquiet and wonder, so that small incidents become haunting parables about desire, loss and the strangeness hidden beneath ordinary life.
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2. A Fúria