Silvina OCAMPO — Lo amargo por dulce

Emece editores | Buenos Aires 1962 | 12.50 x 20.50 cm | broché | Edition originale. Dos très légèrement insolé sans aucune gravité, dernière garde partiellement ombrée en raison de la présence d'une coupure de presse. Bel envoi autographe signé de Silvina Ocampo à son amie Ema Risso Platero : "A Emita, para que no me olvide en los jardines del mundo en donde hay verdes... que nos dan y temura. Silvina 1963."  Ema Risso Platero, diplomate uruguayenne, fut peintre, poète, écrivain (elle publia notamment Arquitecturas del insomnio avec un prologue de Borges) et fut l'amie de Michel Foucault et de Jorge Luis Borges. | [ENGLISH DESCRIPTION FOLLOWS] First edition. Spine very lightly sunned without any gravity, final endpaper partially shadowed due to the presence of a press cutting. Handsome autograph inscription signed by Silvina Ocampo to her friend Ema Risso Platero: "A Emita, para que no me olvide en los jardines del mundo en donde hay verdes... que nos dan y temura. Silvina 1963." ["To Emita, so that she doesn't forget me in the gardens of the world where there are greens... that give us tenderness. Silvina 1963."] Ema Risso Platero, Uruguayan diplomat, was a painter, poet, writer (she notably published Arquitecturas del insomnio with a prologue by Borges) and was a friend of Michel Foucault and Jorge Luis Borges. *