Piano Stories

18 July 2014

Felisberto Hernandez (Author), Luis Harss (Translator)

With an Introduction by Italo Calvino, With a Preface by Francine Prose

Description

From the writer adored by the likes of García Marquez, Calvino, and Francine Prose comes a collection of Hernández's classic tales

Piano Stories presents fifteen wonderful works by the great Uruguayan author Felisberto Hernández, “a writer like no other,” as Italo Calvino declares in his introduction: “like no European or Latin American. He is an ‘irregular,’ who eludes all classifications and labellings — yet he is unmistakable on any page to which one might randomly open one of his books.” Piano Stories contains classic tales such as “The Daisy Dolls,” “The Usher,” and “The Flooded House.”

Reviews

"Poetry that transforms the ordinary into the uncanny." — Bookforum

"Excellent … miraculously alive … wonderful." — Michael Pye, The New York Times Book Review

"A vision of such startling beauty that it flares up like an old-fashioned phosphorous match and illuminates our whole lives." — Francine Prose

"If I hadn't read the stories of Felisberto Hernandez in 1950, I wouldn't be the writer I am today." — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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9780811221801

132 x 206 mm • 224 pages

£13.99

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