Dorothea Tanning

Chasm is the only novel by Dorothea Tanning, the famed surrealist artist, and was published when she was 93 years old.

Dorothea Tanning, que comenzó su carrera poética a los 94 años y que vio publicado su segundo poemario, Si llegamos a eso, pasado el siglo de edad, se definía a sí misma como «la más vieja de l

"Tras una larga vida y una dilatada trayectoria artística, Dorothea Tanning publicó en el 2004, a los 94 años de edad, Índice, su primer libro de poemas y que muy pronto recibiría el aplauso de la critica.A traves de los poemas que componen este libro y que se estructuran alfabeticamente, Dorothea describe y desarrolla el imaginario simbolico protagonista de toda su obra pictorica.Su poesia, llena de frescura y vivacidad, pero tambien de lucidez y precision visual es el feliz resultado de una prolifica vida dedicada al proceso creativo."

A Surrealist novel in the vein of Angela Carter, about love and beauty and dark secrets.Played out like the command of an oracle are the events that stain one night in the improbable setting of this desert tale. Rearing its impudent architecture like insult on a landscape of quiet beauty is Windcote, "its very name a masquerade," where inhabitants and guests find themselves driven by obsessions and confusions they have never faced before. Here doors open and close and open again. They hide, release, reveal, and ruin. In this web of tangled imperatives is the child, Destina, untouched by the fevers and failures around her. Her own world is outside in the mystery-locked canyon where, for the time of this story, she seems to find her own truth