Thinking-About-Gladys Machine

Widely viewed as one of the most inventive bodies of work from 20th-century Latin America, Mario Levrero's writing is distinguished by its bounteous imagination. In none other of the author's books is this imagination so clearly on display as in The Thinking-About-Gladys Machine, his 1970 debut collection of stories. It gathers a variety of Levrero's earliest and most formally inventive publications, ranging from dazzling single paragraph micro-fictions à la Donald Barthelme to adventurous Lewis Carroll-esque tales of forty pages' length.
From the shocking surreal twists of 'Beggar Street' to the Escher-like grammatical maze of 'The Boarding House', via the pseudo-fairy tale classic 'The Basement', this book explores uncanny domestic spaces, using the structures of the stories themselves as tools for re-inventing narrative possibility.

Info autore

Levrero was a photographer, bookseller, comics scriptwriter, humourist, crossword author, and creator of brain games, and a novelist who gained cult status in Latin America. In 2000 he was awarded the Guggenheim grant that allowed him to complete work on The Luminous Novel, which was published posthumously.Annie McDermott’s translations include Mario Levrero’s Empty Words and The Luminous Novel for And Other Stories, as well as Loop by Brenda Lozano, Feebleminded by Ariana Harwicz (co-translation with Carolina Orloff) and City of Ulysses by Teolinda Gersão (co-translation with Jethro Soutar). She has previously lived in Mexico City and São Paulo, and is now based in London.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Mario Levrero, Levrero Mario
• Con la collaborazione di: Annie McDermott (Traduzione), Kit Schluter (Traduzione)
• Editore: And Other Stories
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.10.2024
• EAN: 9781916751064
• ISBN: 978-1-916751-06-4
• Pagine: 176
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Literary, Short Stories, Fiction in translation, Narrative theme: Interior life, Narrative theme: Sense of place, Fiction: general and literary, Narrative theme: Love and relationships