Thus Were Their Faces with Kim McNeill

Episode 5 August 08, 2023 01:05:32
Thus Were Their Faces with Kim McNeill
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Thus Were Their Faces with Kim McNeill

Aug 08 2023 | 01:05:32

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Show Notes

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).

Follow along with Kim's splendid #NYRBWomen23 project here.

References:
The Levant Trilogy by Olivia Manning
The Tale of Genji
Pilgrimage by Dorothy Richardson
A Chill in the Air by Iris Origo
More Was Lost by Eleanor Perenyi
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Robert Walser
The Corner That Held Them
Sur
Victoria Ocampo
Jorge Luis Borges
Adolfo Bioy Casares
City Lights Books
Forgotten Journey
The Promise
Norah Lange
Mariana Enriquez
Remedios Varo
Helen Oyeyemi
Virginia Woolf
"Borges and I"
The Invention of Morel
Lucrecia Martel
Read Cynthia Duncan's article here
Ezekiel
Mary Olivier: A Life by May Sinclair
James Joyce

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