The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington: Surrealist Storytelling and female friendship

She Speaks Volumes

04-07-2022 • 23 mins

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S2:E2: The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington: Surrealist Storytelling and Female Friendship.

Excerpts from The Hearing Trumpet are ready by Verna Sorrentino

This episode is based on The NYRB edition of The Hearing Trumpet published in 2021.

The Hearing Trumpet was written in the 1950s, and was originally published in 1974.

Listen to the SSV episode on Carrington's Down Below

FROM WIKIPEDIA: Mary Leonora Carrington OBE (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011[1]) was a British-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the surrealist movement of the 1930s.[2] Carrington was also a founding member of the women's liberation movement in Mexico during the 1970s.[3][4] read more

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