The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington

In The Complete Stories we meet a mad queen who uses squirming live sponges to wash herself a corpse that casts a circle of light in the forest and a horse-woman who lives among plants and animals because humans won't accept her hybrid state. “In both her prose and her visual art, Carrington dissolves the borders between human and inhuman, fantasy and reality, death and life. In 2006 she received the Lannan Literary Award for Fiction. She is the senior fiction writer in the MFA program at Washington University in St. She is the author of many novels, including Labrador, The Girl Who Trod on a Loaf, Hell, The Walking Tour, The Thin Place, Versailles, Duplex, and Silk Road.

Kathryn Davis has received the Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize, the Morton Dauwen Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. Throughout her long career, Carrington published novels, stories, and plays, in addition to making paintings, sculptures, and tapestries. Nearly mad with grief and terror, she was thrown into a lunatic asylum in Spain, and, after escaping, married a Mexican diplomat, fleeing Europe for New York City then Mexico City, where she lived for the rest of her life. After Ernst was taken from their home to a Nazi internment camp in 1940, Carrington fled France. Four years later, she ran off with Max Ernst and became a darling of the art world in Paris: serving guests hair omelets at one party, arriving naked to another. She was born to a wealthy English family in 1917, expelled from two convents as a girl, and presented to the king's court in 1933.

Leonora Carrington (1917–2011) was a key figure in the Surrealist movement and an artist of remarkable individuality.

The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington by Leonora Carrington