{"id":14625,"date":"2021-04-19T22:15:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T22:15:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/?post_type=product&p=14625"},"modified":"2023-02-12T07:01:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T07:01:18","slug":"the-hearing-trumpet-by-leonora-carrington","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/bookshop\/catalog\/the-hearing-trumpet-by-leonora-carrington\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington"},"content":{"rendered":"

Leonora Carrington, painter, playwright, and novelist, was a surrealist trickster par excellence, and\u00a0The Hearing Trumpet<\/i> is the witty, celebratory key to her anarchic and allusive body of work. The novel begins in the bourgeois comfort of a residential corner of a Mexican city and ends with a man-made apocalypse that promises to usher in the earth\u2019s rebirth. In between we are swept off to a most curious old-age home run by a self-improvement cult and drawn several centuries back in time with a cross-dressing Abbess who is on a quest to restore the Holy Grail to its rightful owner, the Goddess Venus. Guiding us is one of the most unexpected heroines in twentieth-century literature, a nonagenarian vegetarian named Marian Leatherby, who, as Olga Tokarczuk writes in her afterword, is \u201chard of hearing\u201d but \u201cfull of life.\u201d – NYBR<\/a><\/p>\n

[O]ne of the great comic novels of the twentieth century,\u00a0The Hearing Trumpet<\/i>\u00a0reads like a spectacular reassemblage of old and new genres, the campy, illegitimate offspring of Margaret Cavendish\u2019s romances and Robert Graves\u2019s histories, with Thomas Pynchon\u2019s riotous paranoia spliced in to keep it limber and receptive to the political anxieties of its moment.
\n\u2014Merve Emre,\u00a0The New Yorker<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

The Hearing Trumpet<\/i>\u00a0is so inspiring! Free-flowing, spiky imagination. I love its freedom, its humour and how it invents its own laws.
\n\u2014Bj\u00f6rk,\u00a0The Guardian<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Her 1974 novel,\u00a0The Hearing Trumpet<\/i>, newly reissued, stands out as something at last truly radical, undoing not only our expectations of time and space, but of the psyche and its boundaries. . . . [A] mind-flaying masterpiece, held together by Carrington\u2019s gifts of wit, imagination and suspense.
\n\u2014Blake Butler,\u00a0The New York Times<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n

Paperback. 224pp. 5 x 8 in. New York Book Review Classics.<\/p>\n

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Leonora Carrington established herself as both a key figure in the <\/span>Surrealist<\/span><\/a> movement and an artist of remarkable individuality. Her biography is colorful, including a romance with the older artist <\/span>Max Ernst<\/span><\/a>, an escape from the Nazis during World War II, mental illness, and expatriate life in Mexico. In her art, her dreamlike, often highly detailed compositions of fantastical creatures in otherworldly settings are based on an intensely personal symbolism. The artist herself preferred not to explain this private visual language to others. However, themes of metamorphosis and magic, as well as frequent whimsy, have given her art an enduring appeal.<\/span><\/p>\n

Book Beat Book Club Pick for May 2021.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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