Mémoires secrètes d'une poupée

by Silvina Ocampo, Françoise Rosset (Translator)

Dans ce recueil de nouvelles, la plume de Silvina Ocampo, telle une baguette magique, fait surgir du réel, du quotidien le plus banal, un monde d’artifices, un univers de rêves, de cauchemars, de visions insolites qui reflètent avec un humour subtil les angoisses, les pulsions les plus secrètes – souvent douloureuses, parfois inavouables – de cet écrivain dont Borges, son ami, disait : « De tous les termes qui pourraient la définir, le plus précis, je crois, serait le mot : génial ».

266 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012

About the author

Silvina Ocampo Aguirre was a poet and short-fiction writer.

Ocampo was the youngest of the six children of Manuel Ocampo and Ramona Aguirre. One of her sisters was Victoria Ocampo, the publisher of the literarily important Argentine magazine Sur.

Silvina was educated at home by tutors, and later studied drawing in Paris under Giorgio de Chirico. She was married to Adolfo Bioy Casares, whose lover she became (1933) when Bioy was 19. They were married in 1940. In 1954 she adopted Bioy’s daughter with another woman, Marta Bioy Ocampo (1954-94) who was killed in an automobile accident just three weeks after Silvina Ocampo’s death.