The Hearing Trumpet
By Leonora Carrington & Olga Tokarczuk
- Release Date: 2021-01-05
- Genre: Fantasy
Description
An old woman enters into a fantastical world of dreams and nightmares in this surrealist classic admired by Björk and Luis Buñuel.
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. 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. 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. 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.”
Reviews
Get ready for the ride of a lifetime!
5By Ed the Image MakerMaddeningly fascinating! Impossible to categorize much less explain but it has its own logic and is exhilarating to follow that without expecting explanations. The afterword is helpful in that resoect but don’t read it first!
