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La torre sin fin
Luminoso ejercicio de imaginación, La torre sin fin narra una aventura cuyos desenlaces pertenecen al sueño, a las menos sospechadas regiones, climas y peripecias que los sueños habilitan.
Luminoso ejercicio de imaginación, La torre sin fin narra una aventura cuyos desenlaces pertenecen al sueño, a las menos sospechadas regiones, climas y peripecias que los sueños habilitan. Leandro, el protagonista, se asoma al igual que las criaturas de Lewis Carroll -como Alicia, como Sylvia, como Bruno- a un aspecto fantástico de lo real que no niega la realidad. Cada una de sus experiencias, que incluyen un enfrentamiento con el Diablo, es parte de una suerte de rito de pasaje de la niñez a la adolescencia, narrado con una prosa resplandeciente. El genio imprevisible de Silvina Ocampo compone así un relato -publicado casi secretamente en España en 1986 y desconocido en nuestro país hasta su primera reedición en 2007- en el que la sutileza perceptiva y la captación psicológica nos conducen paso a paso por un territorio y un tiempo legendario, inolvidable.
«Lleva Silvina en las páginas de sus cuentos una atmosfera que le es propia, donde las cosas más disparatadas, más incongruentes, están cerca y caminan abrazadas, como en los sueños.»
Victoria Ocampo
Luminoso ejercicio de imaginación, La torre sin fin narra una aventura cuyos desenlaces pertenecen al sueño, a las menos sospechadas regiones, climas y peripecias que los sueños habilitan. Leandro, el protagonista, se asoma al igual que las criaturas de Lewis Carroll -como Alicia, como Sylvia, como Bruno- a un aspecto fantástico de lo real que no niega la realidad. Cada una de sus experiencias, que incluyen un enfrentamiento con el Diablo, es parte de una suerte de rito de pasaje de la niñez a la adolescencia, narrado con una prosa resplandeciente. El genio imprevisible de Silvina Ocampo compone así un relato -publicado casi secretamente en España en 1986 y desconocido en nuestro país hasta su primera reedición en 2007- en el que la sutileza perceptiva y la captación psicológica nos conducen paso a paso por un territorio y un tiempo legendario, inolvidable.
«Lleva Silvina en las páginas de sus cuentos una atmosfera que le es propia, donde las cosas más disparatadas, más incongruentes, están cerca y caminan abrazadas, como en los sueños.»
Victoria Ocampo
57 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 1, 1986
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Silvina Ocampo
146 books540 followersSilvina 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.
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.
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July 14, 2024
The Topless Tower is a mysterious little novella first published in 1968. I'd been wanting to read Silvina Ocampo's short stories and it caught my eye among the library's new acquisitions. The narrative follows a boy named Leandro as a nefarious stranger imprisons him in a painting of a tower. Inside this strange tower, Leandro attempts to paint himself an exit. The tone and imagery of The Topless Tower reminded me somewhat of The Little Prince and Titus Groan, although it wasn't quite as atmospheric as either. Nonetheless I enjoyed it and would have liked it to be longer. The idiosyncratic discussions that Leandro has with other beings in the tower are a highlight:
"What good eyesight you have; in order to see anything I'd have to get myself a telescope."
"You painters don't need to see very well. All they need is their imagination. I never painted. If you're a bad boy, you'll fall into this void."
"Why should I fall?"
"Because I'll push you, to punish you."
"Why do you want to punish me if I haven't done anything wrong? You didn't accept my bracelet, you're the one with no manners."
"I'm going to tear up all your drawings so you can't eat any more puddings."
"What a badly behaved girl you are."
"I'm worse than you think, but it's all your fault: you drew me like this."
July 8, 2018
Sonunda Ocampo’yu Türkçe okuyabilmenin keyfi...
June 22, 2018
A wonderfully imaginative short novella where Leandro is trapped in a tower by the devil.
To past the time the young boy paints various animals and people who come alive, he spends he’s time interacting with them.
It was a nice easy read, with childlike imagination that instantly draws the reader in.
Fun and magical!
To past the time the young boy paints various animals and people who come alive, he spends he’s time interacting with them.
It was a nice easy read, with childlike imagination that instantly draws the reader in.
Fun and magical!
August 20, 2018
Düşsel çocuk hikayeleri genellikle kalp çalan cinsten oluyor ve tekrar tekrar okunmayı vaat ediyorlar. Sonsuz Kule de işte o özel kitaplardan biri.
October 30, 2020
I'm just not sure what to make of this; it's obviously referencing or in homage to the nonsense children's literature that was popular back in the day ("Alice in Wonderland" herself turns up in this) but with a dark, perturbing undercurrent. Paintings and drawings that come to (sort of) life are the vehicle for the absurdity, and I'm guessing that Catherine Storr drew some inspiration from this for Marianne Dreams (another very creepy kids' book that I'd recommend to all). This is translated, though, and while the translation was fine, I did feel as though I was missing something; whether that's because I don't know enough about Argentina, or the move into English from Spanish dulled it somehow, I don't know. It was unsettling, though, and I enjoyed the way the author played with tenses, point of view, and whimsy.
May 24, 2018
Bugün sıra beklerken okuduğum minik güzel kitap! İyi ki yolda durup seni almışım. Sevgiler.
November 3, 2023
Leandro is nine years old, playing in his garden with his friends while supervised by his mother sitting knitting under a tree. Unexpectedly a strange man appears, steps through the half-open gate and, using phrases from several languages, displays a set of painted canvases, all to Leandro’s scornful gaze.
One is of a yellow windowless tower, the others of strange windowless rooms, the last of an artist’s studio. ‘These pictures are of my buildings,’ the man says. ‘I am faithful to reality; I am honest.’
And with that the devilish conjurer transports Leandro inside the tower, ‘the tower from the pictures, with its lugubrious rooms.’ And in that torre sin fin or endless tower Leandro has a choice: endure a metamorphosis or forever remain a child.
And so begins a strange surreal story, confusing at first and yet ultimately of great psychological depth, composed of a series of vignettes seen simultaneously through the eyes of a child and that of the narrator, who is also that child. In the artist’s studio Leandro struggles to paint meaningful images to express his hopes and fears; the images – of other children, the Devil, his mother, but also animals, a window, an automobile, binoculars – come to life and he tries to develop relationships with them.
Trying to make logical sense of what is happening is fruitless, any more than trying to fathom the rationale of one’s waking dreams. Rather, the reader has to enter into the dreamscapes of writers like Lewis Carroll (his Alice appears in these pages), the scenarios of Italo Calvino, Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges (Ocampo’s own associates) and paintings of the surrealist and symbolist schools. In fact, I was most reminded of images from the Major Arcana of Tarot cards, sometimes characterised as the Devil’s picture book: here are tower, moon, dog, conjuror, devil, priestess, fool in their desolate landscapes, pretty much as described in Ocampo’s novella.
While Leandro tries to (as it were) pupate within his cocooning tower his experiences there also draw in motifs from mythological depths: the girl Iffy, for example, references Iphigenia, the innocent maiden due to be sacrificed to Artemis; the maiden Hero, who resided in a tower on one side of the Hellespont, could only be reached by Leander (‘lion-man’) swimming across to her; and of course Leandro’s name is the Spanish form of Leander. And there are psychological depths too – in trying to capture his mother’s eyes, her hair, her proportions in paint, it’s almost as if in her absence he needs an icon to venerate.
James and Marian Womack’s introduction draws attention to the influence of the Alice books in Ocampo’s writing, and in The Topless Tower that influence must surely be filtered from Through the Looking Glass. Ocampo expresses this through the symbol of the pair of binoculars with which Leandro seeks for his mother, the matrix from which his being springs. It offers us the means by which the whole of the narrative comes into focus, showing us how the child’s perspective, seen through one end of the binoculars, can with the onset of maturity become that of the adult seen from the other end.
The beauty of the tale is that Ocampo allows us to partake of the child’s point of view while simultaneously and paradoxically being faithful to the adult’s sense of reality.
One is of a yellow windowless tower, the others of strange windowless rooms, the last of an artist’s studio. ‘These pictures are of my buildings,’ the man says. ‘I am faithful to reality; I am honest.’
And with that the devilish conjurer transports Leandro inside the tower, ‘the tower from the pictures, with its lugubrious rooms.’ And in that torre sin fin or endless tower Leandro has a choice: endure a metamorphosis or forever remain a child.
And so begins a strange surreal story, confusing at first and yet ultimately of great psychological depth, composed of a series of vignettes seen simultaneously through the eyes of a child and that of the narrator, who is also that child. In the artist’s studio Leandro struggles to paint meaningful images to express his hopes and fears; the images – of other children, the Devil, his mother, but also animals, a window, an automobile, binoculars – come to life and he tries to develop relationships with them.
Trying to make logical sense of what is happening is fruitless, any more than trying to fathom the rationale of one’s waking dreams. Rather, the reader has to enter into the dreamscapes of writers like Lewis Carroll (his Alice appears in these pages), the scenarios of Italo Calvino, Adolfo Bioy Casares and Jorge Luis Borges (Ocampo’s own associates) and paintings of the surrealist and symbolist schools. In fact, I was most reminded of images from the Major Arcana of Tarot cards, sometimes characterised as the Devil’s picture book: here are tower, moon, dog, conjuror, devil, priestess, fool in their desolate landscapes, pretty much as described in Ocampo’s novella.
While Leandro tries to (as it were) pupate within his cocooning tower his experiences there also draw in motifs from mythological depths: the girl Iffy, for example, references Iphigenia, the innocent maiden due to be sacrificed to Artemis; the maiden Hero, who resided in a tower on one side of the Hellespont, could only be reached by Leander (‘lion-man’) swimming across to her; and of course Leandro’s name is the Spanish form of Leander. And there are psychological depths too – in trying to capture his mother’s eyes, her hair, her proportions in paint, it’s almost as if in her absence he needs an icon to venerate.
James and Marian Womack’s introduction draws attention to the influence of the Alice books in Ocampo’s writing, and in The Topless Tower that influence must surely be filtered from Through the Looking Glass. Ocampo expresses this through the symbol of the pair of binoculars with which Leandro seeks for his mother, the matrix from which his being springs. It offers us the means by which the whole of the narrative comes into focus, showing us how the child’s perspective, seen through one end of the binoculars, can with the onset of maturity become that of the adult seen from the other end.
The beauty of the tale is that Ocampo allows us to partake of the child’s point of view while simultaneously and paradoxically being faithful to the adult’s sense of reality.
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May 1, 2018A long short story about a young boy who finds himself transported to a tower by the devil, sort of. I’ve been obsessed with Ocampo since I read her NYRB collection last year, which is marvelous and should shoot to the top of your read pile, and this was clever in parts but not as good as most of the ones there. Still, it will tide me over until NYRB Classics gets around to releasing another anthology of her works.
July 23, 2023
çocuk kitaplarını okumak için fırsat vermek lazım kendimize :)
September 29, 2018
“Çocuk edebiyatı yoktur,edebiyatın çocuk gözüyle kavranışı vardır”
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Leandro dokuz yaşında.Annesini çok seviyor,çikolatayı da.Bir yaz,yabancının biri resimleriyle beliveriyor hayatında ve Leandro kendini bir kulenin içine çekilmiş buluyor..Bu kulenin ne yüksekliğini biliyor ne de çıkışın yolunu..
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Silvina Ocampo,masalsı görünen ama ayakları gerçekliğe basan bir metin ortaya koyuyor.Özellikle sonu sıcacık bir tat bırakıyor akılda..
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Kitaptaki önsöz ve son kısıma eklenen yazar ile röportaj da çok ince düşünülmüş.Barış Kara’nın çizimleri de güzel olan diğer bir ayrıntıydı.
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Yazar “kendinizi çocuklarla özdeşleştiriyor musunuz?” sorusuna verdiği cevap ile beni daha da kendine çekti.Şöyle diyor:
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“Hayatta pek çok deneyimimizi unutuyoruz ama çocukluk deneyimlerimizi asla.
Çocukluğumuz aslında dostumuz ama biz o zamanlar çocukluğumuzun dostu değildik çünkü o zamanlar şimdi olduğumuz gibi değildik.O varlık,bazen çaresiz olan o varlık,bize çok dokunuyor.Zira hiç kimse onu bizim kadar anlayamazken,biz,henüz onun yanında değildik.”
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Leandro dokuz yaşında.Annesini çok seviyor,çikolatayı da.Bir yaz,yabancının biri resimleriyle beliveriyor hayatında ve Leandro kendini bir kulenin içine çekilmiş buluyor..Bu kulenin ne yüksekliğini biliyor ne de çıkışın yolunu..
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Silvina Ocampo,masalsı görünen ama ayakları gerçekliğe basan bir metin ortaya koyuyor.Özellikle sonu sıcacık bir tat bırakıyor akılda..
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Kitaptaki önsöz ve son kısıma eklenen yazar ile röportaj da çok ince düşünülmüş.Barış Kara’nın çizimleri de güzel olan diğer bir ayrıntıydı.
.
Yazar “kendinizi çocuklarla özdeşleştiriyor musunuz?” sorusuna verdiği cevap ile beni daha da kendine çekti.Şöyle diyor:
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“Hayatta pek çok deneyimimizi unutuyoruz ama çocukluk deneyimlerimizi asla.
Çocukluğumuz aslında dostumuz ama biz o zamanlar çocukluğumuzun dostu değildik çünkü o zamanlar şimdi olduğumuz gibi değildik.O varlık,bazen çaresiz olan o varlık,bize çok dokunuyor.Zira hiç kimse onu bizim kadar anlayamazken,biz,henüz onun yanında değildik.”
June 21, 2024
"Siento al moverme que estoy en un dibujo animado, lleno de nostalgia. No he comido ningún postre desde que te fuiste; todos me parecen iguales, con el mismo adorno, con el mismo gusto a lágrimas, con la misma consistencia."
Un libro que podría calificarse como infantil, aunque para mi encierra muchas cosas que se salen de la infancia. Silvina Ocampo cuenta la historia de un chico que se burla de alguien y por eso termina encerrado en una especie de torre mágica donde tendrá que esforzarse por salir mediante dibujos y retratos. El narrador es el propio niño que, haciendo alarde de imitar estilos de escritura, constantemente va cambiando de la primera a la tercera persona. Eso es algo que me confundió mucho en un primer momento, pero después, entendiendo de qué se trataba, empecé a disfrutar la naturalidad de este cambio de narración. Tanto es así que no me daba cuenta del cambio.
Es un libro corto, con mucho mensaje, con muchas aventuras al estilo "Alicia en el país de las maravillas" y muestra la fragilidad y, a la vez, la malignidad que pueden tener las infancias.
Lo bueno: es corto, entretenido, profundo en muchos momentos, bastante curioso y los protagonistas que van apareciendo son simpáticos. El cambio de narración, aunque confuso al principio, después se vuelve totalmente natural y eso lo considero propio de un gran talento.
Lo malo: voy a ser pesado, pero ¿qué niño de 8-9 años habla con palabras tan complejas? igual no me hagan caso.
No es lo mejor de Silvina, pero si es un tesoro muy curioso de leer.
Un libro que podría calificarse como infantil, aunque para mi encierra muchas cosas que se salen de la infancia. Silvina Ocampo cuenta la historia de un chico que se burla de alguien y por eso termina encerrado en una especie de torre mágica donde tendrá que esforzarse por salir mediante dibujos y retratos. El narrador es el propio niño que, haciendo alarde de imitar estilos de escritura, constantemente va cambiando de la primera a la tercera persona. Eso es algo que me confundió mucho en un primer momento, pero después, entendiendo de qué se trataba, empecé a disfrutar la naturalidad de este cambio de narración. Tanto es así que no me daba cuenta del cambio.
Es un libro corto, con mucho mensaje, con muchas aventuras al estilo "Alicia en el país de las maravillas" y muestra la fragilidad y, a la vez, la malignidad que pueden tener las infancias.
Lo bueno: es corto, entretenido, profundo en muchos momentos, bastante curioso y los protagonistas que van apareciendo son simpáticos. El cambio de narración, aunque confuso al principio, después se vuelve totalmente natural y eso lo considero propio de un gran talento.
Lo malo: voy a ser pesado, pero ¿qué niño de 8-9 años habla con palabras tan complejas? igual no me hagan caso.
No es lo mejor de Silvina, pero si es un tesoro muy curioso de leer.
September 11, 2025
3.5/5
Favourite lines : Falling in love is beautiful, that there's nothing quite good as having friends, that happiness exists and sometimes happiness has the face of a dog
That being brave means being scared but not paying attention to it and not caring about the fear
Favourite lines : Falling in love is beautiful, that there's nothing quite good as having friends, that happiness exists and sometimes happiness has the face of a dog
That being brave means being scared but not paying attention to it and not caring about the fear
February 17, 2024
<3
Now I need to read this in Spanish
Now I need to read this in Spanish
January 10, 2025
La infancia sudamericana promedio. (!) Me encantaría que en vez de fuente tamaño 60 e interlineado doble mi edición haya sido una ilustrada. Cosa que no sé si existe, pero ahora quiero.
November 13, 2024
oooh i think im gonna like silvina
July 19, 2023
I enjoyed the first half of Ocampo's surrealistic tale of a boy caught inside his own nightmare/dream/inner narrative. The idea of making wishes appear by drawing them is a good one, and at first it held my interest. But even a book of 50 pages needs more than that to sustain it, and in the end it became boring and repetitious.
Disappointing, as it was highly recommended.
Disappointing, as it was highly recommended.
February 8, 2014
Magical :-) a dream state.
Should have been confusing but was (beautifully) not so at all.
Should have been confusing but was (beautifully) not so at all.
June 1, 2016
Finished this and immediately started over from the beginning. Not a huge surprise she was married to Casares.
July 29, 2023
Primera cosa que leo de Silvina Ocampo. Me hizo sentir, efectivamente, en un sueño. Es el paisaje onírico más realista y fiel a la infancia que me encontré leyendo.
August 20, 2023
Yo la amo pero está muy poco logrado. Por no decir que es malísimo. Se siente mucho menos terminado que La promesa, y eso que no la publicó y sí publicó esto.
El narrador y el tono —claves en esta muchacha— están cool, y hasta ahí. El ritmo está all over the place y la prosa no tiene nada de sutil. Apenas describió al hombre como "prestidigitador" me transporté a la traducción de Borges de "Enoch Soames" en Antología de la literatura fantástica, así describía al diablo, me acuerdo porque se me traba toda la lengua cuando quiero pronunciarla, son como cuatro palabras mezcladas, y el hombre acá efectivamente era el diablo. De la misma manera que en La promesa, se libera, pero lo hace de manera espacial y deformativa, muy el cine de Cocteau. También tiene muchísimo de Alicia, incluso la mete en la diégesis, pero muy poco de lo imaginativo y entretenido que es Carroll. Y metió unos cambios de persona dudosísimos. Yo jugando a ser Godard. Idk, por lo menos sirve para aprender más de Silvina.
Igual lo peor fue que me lo cobraron casi 5 lucas y son 60 PÁGINAS CON FUENTE 24 E INTERLINEADO DOBLE. Unas ganas de devolverlo,,, pero ya lo subrayé, ugh.
El narrador y el tono —claves en esta muchacha— están cool, y hasta ahí. El ritmo está all over the place y la prosa no tiene nada de sutil. Apenas describió al hombre como "prestidigitador" me transporté a la traducción de Borges de "Enoch Soames" en Antología de la literatura fantástica, así describía al diablo, me acuerdo porque se me traba toda la lengua cuando quiero pronunciarla, son como cuatro palabras mezcladas, y el hombre acá efectivamente era el diablo. De la misma manera que en La promesa, se libera, pero lo hace de manera espacial y deformativa, muy el cine de Cocteau. También tiene muchísimo de Alicia, incluso la mete en la diégesis, pero muy poco de lo imaginativo y entretenido que es Carroll. Y metió unos cambios de persona dudosísimos. Yo jugando a ser Godard. Idk, por lo menos sirve para aprender más de Silvina.
Igual lo peor fue que me lo cobraron casi 5 lucas y son 60 PÁGINAS CON FUENTE 24 E INTERLINEADO DOBLE. Unas ganas de devolverlo,,, pero ya lo subrayé, ugh.
October 29, 2022
'The devil is not so devilish... insects and reptiles are not so bad... drawing is not hard...falling in love is beautiful... there's nothing quite as good as having friends...happiness exists, and sometimes has the face of a dog...being brave means being scared but not paying attention to it, not caring about fear... being locked in a tower can be almost fun... writing keeps memories alive... seeing one's mother again is the greatest happiness of all' (53)
My first taste of Ocampo and it didn't disappoint. This is a playful, scattered prose with an evolving morale that is eventually spelled out in didactic terms.
There's a smorgasbord of odd situations and strange conversations and while the inner logic of the universe isn't quite as strong as Carroll's Wonderland (The bit about the car was a little slap-dash), overall this is an easy single sitting read and something worth discussion with a child or friend afterwards.
My first taste of Ocampo and it didn't disappoint. This is a playful, scattered prose with an evolving morale that is eventually spelled out in didactic terms.
There's a smorgasbord of odd situations and strange conversations and while the inner logic of the universe isn't quite as strong as Carroll's Wonderland (The bit about the car was a little slap-dash), overall this is an easy single sitting read and something worth discussion with a child or friend afterwards.
June 10, 2022
Silvina Ocampo was one of my favorite discoveries when I was an undergraduate. I found her as intellectually and imaginatively challenging as Borges. There was a Penguin collection of her stories, Leopodina's Dream, that I cherished. Unfortunately, she didn't generate the same level of interest that Borges did, so she went out of print in the US. I am happy that in the last decade she has been rediscovered and her work made available again in English. The Topless Tower (El torre sin fin) is a wild Kafkaesque tale, think about The Trial, about childhood, the imagination, and art. Totally bizarre and enchanting. A book that I wish that I could have read when I was a kid.
September 10, 2025
Interesting little short story, incredibly surreal to the point that I was half lost at points. Quite fun and worth the read as it’s only about 50 pages. Apparently it’s a metaphor about maturing, but I think that went over my head.
Do have to give a shoutout to one of my favourite lines I’ve ever read: “The capons in the dinner jackets smoked continuously, and this vice did not allow them to take a break long enough to get cooked.”
Do have to give a shoutout to one of my favourite lines I’ve ever read: “The capons in the dinner jackets smoked continuously, and this vice did not allow them to take a break long enough to get cooked.”
July 8, 2018
Dönüp dönüp yeniden okumak istediğim, klasiklerim arasına giren kitap... Nebula Kitap iyi ki kazandırmış dilimize.
"Çocukluğumuz aslında dostumuz ama biz o zamanlar çocukluğumuzun dostu değildik; çünkü o zamanlar şimdi olduğumuz gibi değildik. O varlık, bazen çaresiz olan o varlık, bize çok dokunuyor. Zira hiç kimse onu bizim kadar anlayamazken, biz, henüz onun yanında değildik."
"Çocukluğumuz aslında dostumuz ama biz o zamanlar çocukluğumuzun dostu değildik; çünkü o zamanlar şimdi olduğumuz gibi değildik. O varlık, bazen çaresiz olan o varlık, bize çok dokunuyor. Zira hiç kimse onu bizim kadar anlayamazken, biz, henüz onun yanında değildik."
December 26, 2023
Forever been looking for a book that captured a similar vibe as Princess Floralinda by Tasmyn Muir and ahhh I should have known Silvina Ocampo would pull through!
This was obviously published way prior to PF but I loved and adored this one. Ominous and with Ocampo's writing style, it was a perfect pair.
This was obviously published way prior to PF but I loved and adored this one. Ominous and with Ocampo's writing style, it was a perfect pair.
June 16, 2020
The Topless Tower is a beautiful fairy tale to immerse readers of all ages in the experience of growing up in an inexplicable reality. There are wonder and surrealism, sadness, tenderness, and joy in this short novel as there are in life. It should be a classic. Please read it now.
July 29, 2020
4.5 Estrellas
Es un libro muy facil y lindo de leer, es entretenido, divertido, engimatico, ( y un poco desesperante por la situacion de nuestro protagonista). El final me hizo sonreir mucho y sin dudas fue un libro muy lindo, se los recomiendo a todos; es corto y bello♡
Es un libro muy facil y lindo de leer, es entretenido, divertido, engimatico, ( y un poco desesperante por la situacion de nuestro protagonista). El final me hizo sonreir mucho y sin dudas fue un libro muy lindo, se los recomiendo a todos; es corto y bello♡
September 15, 2021
One of the strangest and most weirdly playful books I’ve ever read; surreal but never capricious, soulful and so imagistic. She was a champion of Borges and he of her. If you want something very short and shot through with wit and oddness, try her out!
October 17, 2021
Sencillo, ligero en cuanto número de páginas, pero con mucho contenido para reflexionar. Me ha gustado pero, al mismo tiempo, me ha agobiado un poco. De todas formas recomiendo su lectura.
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