![]() ![]() The offstage death of L a's brother in the early story "And Still the Wheel," haunts L a throughout the book, fueling her sense of wonder and fear of the unknown. At the core of the narratives is a girl child who, though episodes of unsought illumination, encounters for the first time aspects of both the visible and the hidden worlds.”Ĭulled from two previous collections written 28 years apart, the first English translation of Argentine poet Orozco's short fiction pulses with surreal imagery in stories seen through the innocent eyes of L a, the author's autobiographical stand-in. The stories reconstruct scenes from a childhood on the pampas while drawing the reader into an intensely paradoxical universe of mysterious signs and omens, alternately enchanting and unnerving. ![]() “ A Talisman in the Darkness presents, for the first time in English, the spell-binding short stories of Olga Orozco (1920-1999), the Argentine surrealist poet, astrologer, and student of Gnosticism. The translators provide an excellent introduction to Orozco's haunting and illuminating saga of childhood on the Argentine pampa.” ![]() This wise selection of stories reveals Orozco's lyrical as well as mysterious prose. “This is a gem of a collection of Olga Orozco stories, beautifully rendered into English. Orozco’s stories portray, in impressionistic, and dreamy language, a childhood spent in a small town on the Argentine pampa. ![]()
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