Felisberto Hernandez

Uruguay tiene cierto sello especial, en sus inicios con influencia europe sta, y tomando con el tiempo una identidad propia. Hacia 1900 surge en Montevideo la Generaci n del 900. De gran trascendencia dentro y fuera del pa s, sus integrantes son a n considerados grandes exponentes de la poes a, la narrativa breve y el teatro. Se le llama as debido a que la mayor a de sus integrantes comienzan a publicar hacia el a o 1900, en revistas. El cr tico literario August Nemo ha seleccionado los siguientes relatos para este libro: El vampiro por Horacio Quiroga, Van-Houten por Horacio Quiroga, Mi retablo de Navidad por Jos Enrique Rod , La envenenada por Felisberto Hernand z, El combate de la tapera de Eduardo Acevedo D az, Lo mesmo da de Javier de Viana y Cuento simb lico por Jos Enrique Rod . Para m s libros con temas interesantes, aseg rese de consultar los otros libros de esta colecci n.

Todos los cuentos del escritor uruguayo que deslumbr a Cort zar, Onetti, Garc a M rquez e Italo Calvino. Un autor magistral cuyos relatos a nan con gran originalidad lo cotidiano con lo extraordinario. Los relatos de Felisberto Hern ndez, en su esfera de rarezas y a veces en el borde de lo fant stico, abordan la realidad de una manera tan inaudita como certera, para devolv rnosla de tal forma que nos hace pensar que lo que los dem s llam bamos as es una construcci n arbitraria que tan solo present amos, pero que no acert bamos a nombrar. La suya es una literatura del recuerdo, de la memoria como ficci n y como espejo de la verdad al mismo tiempo, con una marca autobiogr fica de fronteras difusas que a la vez es superada por una imaginaci n desbordante. Felisberto Hern ndez es, por estos motivos, entre muchos otros, una de las figuras decisivas de la literatura uruguaya y, tambi n, de la narrativa en lengua espa ola del siglo XX. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION All the stories by the Uruguayan author who dazzled Cort zar, Onetti, Garc a M rquez, and Italo Calvino. A masterful author whose tales cleverly unite the everyday with the extraordinary. The tales of Felisberto Hern ndez, in their realm of eccentricities and sometimes bordering on fantasy, take on reality in such an unprecedented yet accurate way that it makes us think that what the rest of us called "reality" before was an arbitrary construction that we merely sensed, but that we didn't name properly. His is a literature of memory, of memoir as fiction but also as a mirror of the truth, with an autobiographical style of vague boundaries and boundless imagination. Felisberto Hern ndez is therefore one of the decisive figures in Uruguayan literature and also in 20th-century Spanish-language literature. With a prologue by the Spanish writer Ray Loriga.

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.”

Two Crocodiles highlights two literary masters from opposite ends of the world -- Russia's Fyodor Dostoevsky and Uruguay's Felisberto Hern ndez. Dostoevsky's crocodile, cruelly displayed in a traveling sideshow, gobbles whole a pretentious high-ranking civil servant. But the functionary survives unscathed and seizes his new unique platform to expound to the fascinated public. Dostoevsky's Crocodile is a matchless, hilarious satire. Hern ndez's Crocodile, on the other hand, while also terribly funny, is a heartbreaker. A pianist struggling to make ends meet as a salesman finds success when he begins to weep before clients and audience alike, but then he can't stop the crocodile tears.

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