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Lands of Memory
Felisberto Hernandez
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Description for Lands of Memory
Paperback. Num Pages: 212 pages, black & white illustrations. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 134 x 15. Weight in Grams: 220.
Lands of Memory presents a half-dozen wonderful works by Felisberto Hernández, "a writer like no other," Italo Calvino declared, "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."
Named a Guardian Best Book of the Year by Alfred Brendel and a TLS Best Book of the Year by Michael Hofmann (who calls Felisberto "a loopier, vegetarian Kafka, inhabiting his mazy personal baroque"), Lands of Memory collects four astonishing stories and the two dreamlike novellas "Around the Time ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
212
Condition
New
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780811217538
SKU
V9780811217538
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Ref
99-15
About Felisberto Hernandez
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in 1902, Felisberto Hernández was a talented pianist, playing in the silent-screen movie theaters when he was twelve years old. He later toured the small concert halls of Uruguay and Argentina. He married four times, published seven books, and died, impoverished, in 1964. Esther Allen has translated Javier Marias, Jorge Luis Borges, Felisberto Hernandez, Flaubert, Rosario ... Read more
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