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Piano Stories

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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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." Zusammenfassung From the writer adored by the likes of García Marquez, Calvino, and Francine Prose comes a collection of Hernández's classic tales

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Authors Felisberto Hernaandez, Felisberto Hernandez, Felisberto (New Directions) Hernandez, Felisberto Harss Hernandez
Assisted by Luis Harss (Translation)
Publisher New Directions
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 18.07.2014
 
EAN 9780811221801
ISBN 978-0-8112-2180-1
No. of pages 224
Dimensions 135 mm x 205 mm x 23 mm
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature

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