Portal de Periódicos da CAPES

Leonora Carrington y sus memorias: Una experiencia de violencia y locura

2012; Editum, Ediciones de la Universidad de Murcia; Volume: 6; Issue: 6 Linguagem: Inglês

1889-979X

Juncal Caballero Guiral,

Historical and Modern Theater Studies

Down below is a diary, a journey through the mind of Leonora Carrington, who becomes a therapeutic catharsis. Her nervous breakdown, as a result of the hostile world around her, will be condensed and narrated in a short time, five days, by the English artist. The narrated episodes offer a fuzzy border between reality and fiction that, very often, hinders the work of analysis. The thread of time, safe in the early days of her narrative, despite her lack of sanity, breaks down as the description goes on. But that is, also, a denunciation of the violence exerted on women and, in this case, on a woman who, after suffering a nervous breakdown, is in a weak position in front of her family and the society of her time.