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Underlining: an irresistibly unreliable narrator talks about art
The Topless Tower, Silvina Ocampo’s long story/novella, translated by James Womack (London: Hesperus Worldwide, 2010) is the tale of 9-year-old Leandro’s unexpected entrapment and eventual redemption. Leandro mixes first and third person, sometimes inside his story, sometimes beside it, almost always inside the tower that he both suffers and creates. It’s a story about writing…