Oneiromancy - Softcover

Winett De Rokha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1916012140 ISBN 13: 9781916012141

Publisher: Smokestack Books, 2019

Synopsis

Oneiromancy is the study of dreams to predict the patterns of the future. First published in Chile in 1943, Winétt de Rokha's Oneiromancy uses dreams, myths, folk-tales, 'rivers, books and disillusions' to challenge the apparent triumph of reaction in Europe. Writing on behalf of the mothers of the world facing the 'hurricane of fascism', de Rokha combines documentary realism, social protest and the lyrical unconscious to explore the layered meanings of history and landscape, love and politics, utopian dream and dystopian reality. The book was also a reply to her husband's Morfología del espanto, published the same year. An extraordinary Latin American mix of communism and surrealism; Frida Kahlo meets Tina Modotti.

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About the Author

Winétt de Rokha (1894-1951) was the pen name of the Chilean poet Luisa Victoria Anabalón Sanderson. She published four collections of poetry Formas del Sueño (1927), Cantoral (1936), Oniromancia (1943) and El Valle Pierde Su Atmósfera (1949). In 1916 she married the poet Pablo de Rokha; they had nine children together. They also founded the communist and anti-fascist literary journal and publishing house Multitud. After her death, de Rokha memorialised his wife in Fuego negro and Acero de invierno.

Edition details

• Publisher: Smokestack Books
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1916012140
• ISBN 13: 9781916012141
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 170