The promise /
Ocampo, Silvina,
The promise / Silvina Ocampo ; translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Jessica Powell. - xv, 103 pages : 18 cm
"A dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity"-- A woman traveling on a transatlantic ship falls overboard; adrift, she makes a promise to Saint Rita, "arbiter of the impossible," that if she survives, she will write her life story. As she drifts, the story of her life-- a repertoire of miracles, threats, and people parade tumultuously through her mind. Eventually her imagination begins to commandeer her memories, escaping the strictures of realism.
Translated into English from Spanish.
9780872867710 0872867714
2019027247
Survival at sea--Fiction.
Argentine fiction--20th century.
The promise / Silvina Ocampo ; translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Jessica Powell. - xv, 103 pages : 18 cm
"A dying woman's attempt to recount the story of her life reveals the fragility of memory and the illusion of identity"-- A woman traveling on a transatlantic ship falls overboard; adrift, she makes a promise to Saint Rita, "arbiter of the impossible," that if she survives, she will write her life story. As she drifts, the story of her life-- a repertoire of miracles, threats, and people parade tumultuously through her mind. Eventually her imagination begins to commandeer her memories, escaping the strictures of realism.
Translated into English from Spanish.
9780872867710 0872867714
2019027247
Survival at sea--Fiction.
Argentine fiction--20th century.