A review by casskrug
The Promise by Silvina Ocampo

3.0

this novella is a collage of descriptions of the people the narrator knew as she drifts to the bottom of the sea after falling overboard a ship. the writing at the end, where she ruminates on memory, the passage of time, and the meaning of life, was very reminiscent of lispector to me. this was very dreamlike and fragmentary. i’m really intrigued by the fact that ocampo worked on this for the last 25 years of her life.

“I’m inhabited now by infinite people who disturb my memory. I’m living off other memories. Which one am I? Sometimes I can’t find myself.”