Autobiografía de Irene

First published in 1948, Autobiography of Irene fulfills the promises of the best literature: a clear narrative, a style of economic precision, the flight of the imagination at its leisure. In these five stories, which take place in settings as diverse as ancient Rome, a city in China or the countryside of the province of Buenos Aires, Silvina Ocampo explores identity, lies, resentment, death, melancholy, dreams. , the certainties and uncertainties about what happened or did not happen: often, the thematic lines are confused in the calm and an unusual splendor appears in all its violence. The fascination that the longest of the stories, "The Impostor", has aroused in screenwriters and film directors is no coincidence: this story filled with misleading clues plunges us into a daytime dream where reality and its artifices establish an unforgettable phantasmagoria. This new edition includes the unpublished plot that the author wrote for a film version, never made, of that ambiguous novel.