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Leonora

Portrait of Leonora Carrington

The life of an extraordinary woman, who calls itself a female human animal, whose name the title of this wonderful novel is the latest installment Elena Poniatowska makes us writing about the surrealist artist Leonora Carrington.

of child life aristocratic in his native England to life in exile in Mexico. The long journey through Italy, France, Spain, Portugal, USA and Mexico will finally recording the facts of the life of this singular artist. The girl concerned, the little rider, the pubescent interested in art, the girl who breaks up with schemes in the art and immersed in it. Living in the bonanza, with a privileged upbringing in childhood and puberty, Leonora faces life with vigor, enthusiasm, determination, courage and creativity. His interest in art and life of artists led her to the forefront of their younger days, getting involved in that vanguard of the day: surrealism, with which he lived and through that showed the world a different way of dream and understand it.

The childhood fantasies behind. In youth and because of the war for the second time in the twentieth century Europe took escapes from France. Live forced into a psychiatric center in Spain, where it is subjected to vile abuse that few humans have lived. Exceeds that plight. Lisbon is the time Mexican diplomat Renato Leduc, who lives a romance that allows, together with a group of surrealist artists, go to America. He lived in New York and from there came to Mexico. In Mexico spent most of his works: painting, sculpture, storytelling and more.

shape prevalent in Poniatowska's book is the dialogue. Leonora dialogue with your partner, your friends, their friends, the world. Dialogue with their children born in Mexico. Protects, leaving the country with them after the persecution following the 1968 student movement.

Elena Poniatowska has given us a masterpiece. Therefore, this novel received the Biblioteca Breve Prize 2011. By reading it through part the world and the fascinating life of Leonora Carrington, who is starring in one of the vanguards of art that influenced the development of mankind. Leonora Carrington is a citizen of the world.

Title: Leonora

Author: Elena Poniatowska

Publisher: Seix Barral

Edition: First, February 2011.

reptiles sculpture replica of Leonora Carrington on the Paseo de la Reforma in Mexico City, seen from a city bus service.