Leonora
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- Author: Poniatowska Elena
- Publisher: Fraktura d.o.o.
- Availability: Available
- Condition: New book
- Code: 68285
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Leonora
Poniatowska Elena
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Elena Poniatowska: Leonora
Born in England during the First World War, Leonora is an unusual girl in everything: she is followed everywhere by mythical creatures sidhesi, and she sees herself as a horse. In an effort to tame her, her rich parents send her to nuns for education, but Leonora runs away to Paris and begins a distinctive painting career there. She spent the thirties in a turbulent relationship with Max Ernst, one of the founders of Dadaism and Surrealism, and when he was taken to a concentration camp, Leonora ended up in a psychiatric hospital. But even the terrible therapies to which she was subjected did not kill her desire for art. When she meets Mexican diplomat Renato Leduc, she decides to leave war-torn Europe and goes with him to Mexico. Although at first she finds it difficult to find her way in a foreign country, she experiences her full artistic affirmation there.
In her romanticized biography of Leonora Carrington, one of the most prominent surrealist painters and writers, Elena Poniatowska wonderfully depicts the life of the artist she met in the fifties. Leonora is a book about a woman of incredible energy and eccentric character whose life past all the important surrealists of the 20th century.
"Elena Poniatowska, one of the key figures of Mexican literature, in Leonora provides an extraordinary portrait of an artist."
Financial Times
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- Author: Poniatowska Elena
- Publisher: Fraktura d.o.o.
- Year of publication:2016
- Place of publication:Zagreb
- Pages:416
- Dimensions:15x22.5 cm
- Script:Latin script
- Condition:New book
- Binding:Softcover
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