As this year’s female-led Venice Biennale continues – themed around Leonora Carrington’s surrealist book The Milk of Dreams – we give you five books to read
– takes its title from a children’s book by the surrealist artist and writer Leonora Carrington. Focusing on the changeable definition of what it means to be human, curator Ceclia Alemani has centred this year’s vast exhibition around the book and its transformative, metamorphosing characters.
From Carrington’s metamorphic, surrealist short stories to the radical essays of Ursula K Le Guin, here are five books to read before the Biennale.itself, Carrington’s short stories are filled with inventive hybrid creatures and moments of unexpected transformation. Take time to immerse yourself in the full fantastical range of Carrington’s creativity; in these stories, a hyena dresses up to go to a ball, a talking horse invites a woman out, and lovers collide under a “mountain of cats”.
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