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Northwestern University Press, 2007-10-15. Paperback. New. 0.5000 in x 7.3000 in x 5.9000 in.
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The One-Handed Pianist and Other Stories Brochura - 2007 - 1st Edição
por Ilan Stavans
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Haunting and enigmatic, these nine loosely connected stories are evidence of the growing field of Jewish-Latin American fiction. "A Heaven Without Crows", structured as a letter from Kafka to his friend Max Brod, details the labyrinthine paths of his tortured soul. "The Invention of Memory", awarded the Gamma Literature Prize, is also a tribute to Eastern European letters, in which a Czech man with a portentous memory is diagnosed with a deteriorating illness. He travels to Mexico to look for his past and fight against oblivion by carefully staging his vanishing reminiscences. "Three Nightmares" proves that fantasy and reality, people and things, are form-shifting aspects of one another. And the title story is a bizarre tale, a succinct and tangential homage to Felisberto Hernandez's piano narratives and to Oliver Sacks's neurological anecdotes, in which a young woman loses touch with one of her hands. The volume concludes with an autobiographical essay, "Lost in Translation", in which Stavans comments on his experience growing up Jewish in Mexico. Told with wit and precision, these stories are at once a meditation on politics and the imagination in the Hispanic world, compelling allegories on the nature of freedom and individuality, a study of guilt, and a savage satire on the rigorous banality of life. The delicious secrets of Stavans's imagination unfold in these endearing tales with the authority of dreams, questioning our philosophical assumptions and portraying the universe as a vast, mysterious theater where everything is sacred but nothing is absolute.
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- Título The One-Handed Pianist and Other Stories
- Autor Ilan Stavans
- Encadernação Brochura
- Número da edição 1st
- Edição 1
- Páginas 208
- Volumes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial Northwestern University Press
- Data de publicação October 28, 2007
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780810124608 / 0810124602
- Peso 0.54 libras (0.24 kg)
- Dimensão 7.45 x 6.14 x 0.43 in. (18.92 x 15.60 x 1.09 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Stavans, Ilan
- Número da Biblioteca do Congresso dos Estados Unidos 2007017827
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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The One-Handed Pianist and Other Stories
por Stavans, Ilan
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paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
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