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La promesa [The Promise]

By: Silvina Ocampo
Narrated by: Dolores Fonzi
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Summary

La promesa es la ficción más extensa de Silvina Ocampo y a la que se dedicó, con intermitencias, durante unos 25 años.

Una mujer se inclina sobre la baranda de un transatlántico para recoger un broche y cae accidentalmente por la borda. Mientras el barco se aleja, promete a Santa Rita, la "abogada de lo imposible", que si logra salvarse escribirá su autobiografía. Personas y lugares desfilan ante sus ojos formando un "diccionario de recuerdos" a menudo crueles o perturbadores, mientras el mar la rodea con toda su furia. Poco a poco, la imaginación de la náufraga empieza a jugar con esas imágenes del pasado como si quisiera distraerla de los peligros que la acechan, hasta que las fronteras entre lo vivido y lo soñado se desdibujan en una narración que va tornándose cada vez más exuberante, más poética, a medida que se acerca el desenlace inevitable. Escrita a comienzos de la década de 1960 y sometida a varias reescrituras durante las décadas siguientes, esta "novela fantasmagórica" permaneció inédita en vida de su autora. Publicada por primera vez en 2011, deslumbra por su audacia formal, por las invenciones de su trama, por la prosa siempre inspirada de Silvina Ocampo.

«Silvina Ocampo es un genio, una de las grandes.»
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Please note: This audiobook is in Spanish.

©2011 Herederos de Silvina Ocampo (P)2023 Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial S.A.

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