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Gardens of Delight, or What's Cookin'? Leonora Carrington in the Kitchen

1991; New Prairie Press; Volume: 15; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.4148/2334-4415.1277

2334-4415

Sonia Assa,

American Literature and Culture

Most of the short stories written between the years 1937 and 1941 by Leonora Carrington, a Surrealist painter and story-teller, are centered around an eating scene: "une scène" and/or "cène." Few of her stories fail to include an allusion to eating, and more often to devouring, while the food in question is seldom "innocent." The experience of the body or "corps propre" as represented in her narratives, is that of a body eating/being eaten, a place of culinary alchemies which is also manipulated, or manipulates itself, in order to exercise control over the outside world. In this fictional realm dominated by magic, perversion and anarchic excess, food elaboration and food consumption are posited as the central act of the narrative.