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A Portrait of the Writer as Artist
2015,2014
Overview
Writers often use other arts such as painting, sculpting or music as metaphors for their own creative task. Silvina Ocampo, herself an artist as well as a short story writer, follows this tradition by making frequent reference in her stories to various types of artistic endeavors. An examination of art and of artists which appear as characters in Ocampo’s fiction may shed light on the aesthetics which govern her written work; it may also provide clues to the issues of gender in Ocampo’s writing, “ese no sé qué femenino” mentioned by Eduardo González Lanuza in 1949.
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