Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories (NYRB Classics)

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Thus Were Their Faces: Selected Stories (NYRB Classics)

An NYRB Classics Original

Thus Were Their Faces offers a comprehensive selection of the short fiction of Silvina Ocampo, undoubtedly one of the twentieth centuryâ€™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 old woman, a suicidal romance, and much else that is incredible, mad, sublime, and delicious. Italo Calvino has written that no other writerÂ â€œbetter captures the magic inside everyday rituals, the forbidden or hidden face that our mirrors donâ€™t show us.â€ Jorge Luis Borges flatly declared, â€œSilvina Ocampo is one of our best writers. Her stories have no equal in our literature.â€

Dark, gothic, fantastic, and grotesque, these haunting stories are among the worldâ€™s most individual and finest.

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