Silvina Ocampo - A Fúria e Outros Contos

Everything coexists in Silvina Ocampo's elegiac universe. Lives entangled in fiction, ardent betrayals and icy revenges, mirrors or dreams reflecting ghosts of flesh and blood. The magical everyday life of good omens and bad portents, or the imperturbable calm that precedes torrential violence. Much fantasy, much cruelty. And always childhood, the fine fissure between innocence and perversion.

The Fury and Other Stories (1959), her most Ocampo-esque book, brings together thirty-four very short stories, among them "The Photographs" – a birthday full of jubilation and macabre elements –, "The Patient and the Doctor" – beings imprisoned by madness, illness, devotion and hatred – and "The Sugar House" – specters of past lives, Julio Cortázar's favorite story.