Silvina Ocampo
In rooting around for a copy of the Borges edited The Book of Fantasy just now, which doesn't seem to be in print, i was surprised to find that it seemms that no virtually no work of Silvina Ocampo is in print in English translation.
Princeton has a collection of her papers, but what good is that to anyone other than scholars?
I just ordered a copy of Leopoldina's Dream instead of the book i originally sought.
It's fantastic that Roberto BolaƱo is in fashion, but it's shameful that other key authors fall by the wayside when they fall out of fashion.
(This is yet another reason for me to stop procrastinating learning Spanish.)
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