“The first time I read Leonora Carrington’s The Hearing Trumpet, I knew nothing about its author, so I had the incredible experience of coming to this short novel in a state of innocence. I was wholly unaware, for instance, that Carrington had been a painter, that she spent most of her life as an expat in Mexico, and that in her youth she had been in a relationship with Max Ernst, one of the greatest surrealists. But the anarchic tone and perverse nature of this little book made a powerful impression, one that has never left me. There are two qualities in fiction that I find particularly astonishing and moving: open-endedness and wild metaphysics. ...”
Guardian: The Surreal Life of Leonora Carrington by Joanna Moorhead – review, My ‘wild child’ cousin, the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington (Video)
And Then We Saw the Daughter of the Minotaur. 1953
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