Carrington, Leona — Den Ovale Dame & Andre Fortaellinger

København (Copenhagen), Denmark, Det Poetiske Bureau, 2016. Softcover. Small (4x6 inches), glossy white/maroon wraps with color image and white lettering on spine. 359 pp. with no illus. Text in Danish. "The Oval Woman and Other Stories" - The latest volume in the agency's Pocket Library presents another major foreign author. English-born Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) is one of the 20th century's key author and was Max Ernst's girlfriend prior to WW2. The book contains a large and comprehensive selection of Leonora Carrington's short stories. They include selections from her earlier life, when she was influenced by surrealism, to which Ernst introduced her, later stories about her escape from the Nazis and her subsequent breakdown, and more recent stories published in the late 1980s. Leonora Carrington also was an artist and active in the Mexican women's movement. Gradually, through her magical realism, she came to be seen alongside artists such as Frida Kahlo. The book was translated by Ib Johansen. Carrington was an English-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City, and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. As New .