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This, at least, is what we are led to believe. The reader, like any dutiful sidekick, awaits further instructions to go Down Below. Instead, Carrington’s madness lifts, and upon her release she journeys from Madrid to Lisbon to New York. The quest is aborted, utopia abandoned, the threads of the story snapped before they can be knotted together. Why, the disappointed reader wonders, has the heroine failed to complete her quest? The epilogue to “Down Below” suggests that, in life, no one was there to help convert Carrington’s madness into a fully realized world. The artistic community of European Surrealism was now scattered, confined. Her surreal experience of psychiatric institutionalization was mirrored by Surrealism’s institutionalization in New York’s art market—a complicity with wealth depressingly symbolized by Ernst’s marriage to Peggy Guggenheim, in 1942. “Surrealism is no longer considered modern today,” a character in “The Hearing Trumpet” laments. “Even Buckingham Palace has a large reproduction of Magritte’s famous slice of ham with an eye peering out. It hangs, I beli

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Leonora Carrington

Leonora Carrington OBE (6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011) was an English-born Mexican artist, surrealist painter, and novelist. She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City, and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington was also a founding member of the Women’s Liberation Movement in Mexico during the 1970s.

Carrington was born in Clayton Green, Chorley, Lancashire, England. Her father was a wealthy textile manufacturer, and her mother, Maureen (née Moorhead), was Irish. She had three brothers: Patrick, Gerald, and Arthur.

Educated by governesses, tutors, and nuns, she was expelled from two schools, including New Hall School, Chelmsford, for her rebellious behaviour, until her family sent her to Florence, where she attended Mrs Penrose's Academy of Art. She also, briefly, attended St Mary's convent school in Ascot. In 1927, at the age of ten, she saw her first Surrealist painting in a Left Bank gallery in Paris and later met many Surrealists, including Paul Éluard. Her father opposed her

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Leonora Carrington

The Hearing Trumpet
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The Complete Stories of Leonora Carrington
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4.01 avg rating — 3,157 ratings — published 2017 — 18 editions

Down Below
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3.84 avg rating — 2,710 ratings — published 1945 — 23 editions

The Skeleton’s Holiday
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3.65 avg rating — 1,262 ratings — published 2018 — 4 editions

The Milk of Dreams

4.12 avg rating — 772 ratings — published 2013 — 11 editions

The Seventh Horse and Other Tales

4.22 avg rating — 420 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions

The Debutante and Other Stories

3.95 avg rating — 411 ratings — published 1939 — 7 editions

House of Fear

4.11 avg rating — 271 ratings — published 1938 — 9 editions

The Oval Lady, Other Stories: Six Surreal Stories

3.96 avg rating — 154 ratings — published 1938 — 10 editions

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