Элена Понятовска - циклы книг | Бумажные издания

The first English edition of the work of one of Mexico's most admired women writers.

Este era un hombre que nació en un pueblito bicicletero y muy pronto entendió que sus dones no eran la belleza y la fortaleza física, sino la palabra, la voluntad y su indomable ansia de saber. Un día el tren pasó frente a sus ojos, y en el ruido de la máquina escuchó el inicio del relato del resto de su vida. En opinión de Saturnino, uno de sus amigos, ser ferrocarrilero es lo mejor que puede sucederle a un hombre.

Born in Lancashire as the wealthy heiress to her British father's textiles empire, Leonora Carrington was destined to live the kind of life only known by the moneyed classes. But even from a young age she rebelled against the strict rules of her social class, against her parents and against the hegemony of religion and conservative thought, and broke free to artistic and personal freedom. Today Carrington is recognised as the key female Surrealist painter, and Poniatowska's fiction charms this exceptional character back to life more truthfully than any biography could. For a time Max Ernst's lover in Paris, Carrington rubbed elbows with…