Leonora

Born in Lancashire as the wealthy heiress to her British father's textiles empire, Leonora Carrington was destined to live the kind of life only known by the moneyed classes. But even from a young age she rebelled against the strict rules of her social class, against her parents and against the hegemony of religion and conservative thought, and broke free to artistic and personal freedom.

Leonora Carrington (1917-2011), artist and writer, a woman with an indomitable rebellious spirit, who became a legend... The rich heiress of a British textile magnate, even as a child she knew she was different. She stands up against social conventions, against her parents and teachers, breaks every religious and ideological connection in order to win her right to be free. Leonora experiences a stormy love story with the German artist Max Ernst, with whom she embarks on the whirlwind of surrealism; in Paris she communicated with notable figures from the creative avant-garde of the 20th century. When Max was sent to a concentration camp, she fell into a severe mental crisis. She later lived in Mexico, where she created his most brilliant artistic and literary works.

Penetratingly and fascinatingly, Elena Poniatovska describes the surreal life of one of the last representatives of surrealism as an escape from predestination and a cry for personal and creative freedom.