{"title":"Silvina Ocampo","description":"\u003cstyle\u003e\na {\n    text-decoration: none;\n    color: #464feb;\n}\ntr th, tr td {\n    border: 1px solid #e6e6e6;\n}\ntr th {\n    background-color: #f5f5f5;\n}\n\u003c\/style\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSilvina Inocencia Ocampo was born in \u003cstrong\u003eBuenos Aires on 28 July 1903\u003c\/strong\u003e and died in the same city on \u003cstrong\u003e14 December 1993\u003c\/strong\u003e. She was a \u003cstrong\u003ewriter, short story writer and poet\u003c\/strong\u003e, and initially trained in the \u003cstrong\u003evisual arts\u003c\/strong\u003e, studying painting and drawing in Paris with artists linked to surrealism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe was the sister of \u003cstrong\u003eVictoria Ocampo\u003c\/strong\u003e, founder of the magazine \u003cem\u003eSur\u003c\/em\u003e, and the wife of the writer \u003cstrong\u003eAdolfo Bioy Casares\u003c\/strong\u003e, with whom she had a very close personal and literary relationship. For many years her work was partly overshadowed by these names, but today she is recognised as a \u003cstrong\u003ecentral author of the Argentine canon\u003c\/strong\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eShe taught us what envy is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dias-da-noite","title":"Days of the night","description":"\u003cp data-end=\"998\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eStories. Small. Dense. Corrosive. Handle with care.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"998\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eThe cruel elegance of everyday normality. In childhood, cruelty disguised as innocence, the latent violence lurking beneath the veneer of domestic life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"998\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eAll it takes is a child who lies naturally, a family nourished by resentments (is there any that isn't?), a banal gesture that opens the way to the abyss. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"998\" data-start=\"0\"\u003eReading \u003cem data-end=\"741\" data-start=\"726\"\u003eDays of the Night\u003c\/em\u003e is realizing that horror lies not in grand catastrophes, but in small acts of selfishness, lies, and revenge. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1682\" data-start=\"1000\"\u003eSilvina Ocampo (1903–1993), sister of Victoria Ocampo, was one of the most original and underestimated voices in Argentine literature. A trained painter and writer by destiny, she devoted herself primarily to the short story. Often relegated to the background due to the brilliance of Borges and Bioy Casares, with whom she shared affinities and projects, Silvina built a singular body of work, marked by irony, subtle cruelty, and a disturbing imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-end=\"1682\" data-start=\"1000\"\u003eReading Ocampo is facing the uncomfortable certainty that monstrosity rarely comes from outside: it lives within each of us.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Snob","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45212390621450,"sku":"","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/0ed7359-capa-site-silvina-ocampo-dias-da-noite.png?v=1757342780"},{"product_id":"a-promessa","title":"The promise","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Like Scheherazade with King Shahriar, I somehow told stories to death so that it would spare my life and the lives of those I loved; stories that seemed to have no end.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn a ship, a woman falls into the sea. Adrift, she sees her entire life pass before her eyes and promises Saint Rita, patron saint of impossible causes, to write her story if she survives. People, places, and memories flood back to her, like wreckage bobbing on the water, in an unfathomable and threatening ocean, forming a powerful dictionary of recollections. Published posthumously in 2011, A Promessa underwent constant rewriting since the 1960s and was the work of the author’s final days, as she was already tormented by illness.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antígona","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52531819151626,"sku":"2026-MDT-LVR-234","price":14.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/A_promessa.webp?v=1770726696"},{"product_id":"as-convidadas","title":"The guests","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eLife would be so short if it were not for those unpleasant moments that make it seem endless.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“I know no other writer who captures so well the magic of everyday rituals, the forbidden or hidden face that our mirrors do not show us.” Italo Calvino\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA work of maturity and one of the author’s most acclaimed books,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Guests\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1961) brings together, in Ocampo’s characteristic style, forty-four unsettling stories about her favourite themes—childhood, love, madness, the fantastic—among which “The Diary of Porfiria Bernal”—the astonishing metamorphosis of a governess—, “The Revelation”—the visions at the bedside of a dying man—and the story that gives the collection its name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn open window into the supernatural everyday, which appears to sensitive beings in spectres and apparitions, Silvina Ocampo’s relentless writing, like the characters she creates, owes its power to a rigorous imagination and a deceptive innocence, capable of tenderness and terror, as if she wanted “to show us Heaven only to cast us into Hell.”\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antígona","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52531832881418,"sku":"2026-MDT-LVR-233","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/Asconvidadas.webp?v=1770726956"},{"product_id":"a-furia","title":"Fury","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eWho is this?, I thought, and it was me.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“In Silvina Ocampo’s stories there is a peculiarity that I cannot understand, her strange love for a certain innocent or oblique cruelty; I attribute this singularity to interest, the astonished interest that evil inspires in a noble soul.” Jorge Luis Borges\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEverything coexists in Silvina Ocampo’s elegiac universe. Lives entangled in fiction, burning betrayals and icy revenges, mirrors or dreams that reflect flesh-and-blood ghosts. The magical everyday of good omens and bad portents, or the unperturbed calm that precedes torrential violence. Much fantasy, much cruelty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd always childhood, the fine fissure between innocence and perversion.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFúria and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e(1959), her most Ocampo-esque book, brings together thirty-four very brief stories, among which “The Photographs” - a birthday full of joy and the macabre -, “The Patient and the Doctor” - beings imprisoned by madness, illness, devotion and hatred - and “The Sugar House” - spectres of past lives, Julio Cortázar’s favorite short story.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antígona","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52531841663242,"sku":"2026-MDT-LVR-232","price":17.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/files\/Afuria.webp?v=1770727090"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0735\/2729\/6266\/collections\/SilvinaOcampo1_ce99afc9-f428-4cbd-bf77-a13e3462a775.jpg?v=1770727802","url":"https:\/\/www.malditalivraria.com\/en\/collections\/silvina-ocampo.oembed","provider":"Maldita Livraria","version":"1.0","type":"link"}