![]() ![]() ![]() 194950, oil on canvas, private collection found here) This year is the centenary year of Leonora Carrington’s birth. The Hearing Trumpet is the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who. Exact Change launched a program of reprinting her fiction with what is perhaps her best loved book. Crucially, though, the novel doesn’t make death seem desirable, the way troubling narratives that romanticize suffering sometimes can. Leonora Carrington, the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter is also a writer of extraordinary imagination and charm. The Hearing Trumpet gave me a story about my grandmother’s passing in which the world inside her head grew more vibrant, not less. Guiding us is one of the most unexpected heroines in twentieth-century literature, a nonagenarian vegetarian named Marian Leatherby, who, as Olga Tokarczuk writes in her afterword, is \”hard of hearing\” but \”full of life. The Hearing Trumpet, by Leonora Carrington. by Leonora Carrington and Pablo Weisz-Carrington. ![]() In between we are swept off to a most curious old-age home run by a self-improvement cult and drawn several centuries back in time with a cross-dressing Abbess who is on a quest to restore the Holy Grail to its rightful owner, the Goddess Venus. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth’s rebirth. Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and The Hearing Trumpet is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Bj rk and Luis Bu uel. ![]()
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